Mips Quality Measures 2018

Updated 09 01 2020 2020 facility based quick start guide.

Mips quality measures 2018.

Hemoglobin a1c hba1c poor control 9 yes. On september 21 2018 we selected 7 applicants to receive cooperative agreement awards through the medicare access and chip reauthorization act of 2015 macra funding opportunity. Quality cost improvement. Unfortunately upon implementation of the law many clinician stakeholders still found the system confusing and burdensome.

The merit based incentive payment system mips track of medicare s quality payment program qpp includes four performance categories. Measure development for the quality payment program. If the psychiatrist or practice is unable to report on a total of six measures from this set the next option is selecting from other mips quality measures. Percentage of patients 18 75 years of age with diabetes who had hemoglobin a1c 9 0 during the measurement period.

2018 mips quality measures. Groups and virtual groups with 25 or more clinicians participating in mips who are registered and choose to submit data using the cms web interface must report all 15 required quality measures for the full year january 1 december 31 2018. 2017 mips apms low volume threshold. Quality id measure name high priority measure type details measure description full specifications.

2018 quality payment program qpp performance results in an attempt to streamline multiple quality programs for physicians the law created the merit based incentive payments system mips. 2020 medicare part b claims measure specifications and supporting documents zip 2020 cms web interface measure specifications and supporting documents zip 2020 quality benchmarks zip 2020 clinical quality measure specifications and supporting documents zip 2020 mips quality measures list xlsx 2020 qcdr measure specifications xlsx. This means that even if a clinician or group is at or below the low volume threshold of 30 000 in covered professional services under the medicare pfs or furnishing covered professional services to less than or. To assist in that selection we have compiled a list of other 2018 mips quality measures recommended for psychiatrists.