It feels like just yesterday we were educating everyone on the new changes to MIPS for 2024 and now we are halfway through the reporting year. If the year is flying by for you too, it’s time to do a MIPS check-in. Remember, the key to successful MIPS reporting is staying active with your dashboards and tracking your performance. Here are some things to keep in mind as we officially move into the second half of the 2024 reporting year.
- If you haven’t registered for 2024 MIPS reporting, now is the time! We have learned through years of experience that the most successful clients are those that track their quality reporting progress throughout the year and don’t try to catch up at the end of the reporting period. Early data submission, consistent monitoring, and actively working your data will pay off with a higher score in the end.
- In a previous blog, we informed readers that CMS changed the Promoting Interoperability performance period from 90 to 180 consecutive days starting this year. This means to earn any points for this category, groups and eligible clinicians must begin their performance period no later than July 5, 2024. This could affect more providers than ever before because also beginning in 2024, CMS will no longer automatically reweight promoting operability for the following clinicians: physical therapists, occupational therapists, qualified speech-language pathologists, qualified audiologists, clinical psychologists, and registered dietitians/nutrition professionals. The only clinician types who qualify for automatic reweighting are clinical social workers and those with a special status that allows for reweighting (ambulatory surgical center (ASC)-based, hospital-based, non-patient facing, and small practices). Lastly, remember that failing to report any part of the PI category will result in a zero score for the entire category, making it nearly impossible to avoid a penalty.
- Just because we’re in 2024 doesn’t mean you should forget about 2023’s MIPS submission. The Final Score Preview, which gives clinicians the opportunity to preview their final score before the release of payment adjustment information, should drop within the next week or two. We highly recommend checking your projected scores to ensure they are accurate and address any potential issues before CMS calculates your payment adjustment. It is much easier to address any issues during this preview than waiting to conduct a targeted review once payment adjustments are released.
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