Let CareVitality’s team help you successfully participate in the
Merit-based
Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Merit Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS)
Performance Categories for 2020
45%
Quality
15%
Improvement Activities
25%
Advancing Care Information
15%
Cost
How will this Quality Payment Program effect my Medicare Payments?
Your Medicare payment adjustments will depend both on how much data you submit and your quality results.
Methodology calculating overall performance in 2020
Performance Category
Maximum Points
% of overall MIPS Score (2018)
Quality
60 points
45%
Promoting Interoperability
100 points
25%
Improvement Activities
40 points
15%
Cost
15 points
15%
Payment Adjustments
Depending on the track of the Quality Payment Program you choose and the data you submit by March 31, 2021 for your reporting period in 2020, your 2022 Medicare payments will be adjusted up, down, or not at all. The information provided below is only relevant for the 2020 payment year. CMS will provide additional information on payment adjustments for 2022 and beyond beginning next year.
Pick your pace in MIPS: If you choose the MIPS track of the Quality Payment Program, you have three options.
-9% Payment Adjustment
If you do not submit a minimum amount of 2020 data to Medicare
Avoid -9% payment adjustment
Submit a minimum amount of 2020 data to Medicare
Submit a Partial Year
If you submit 90 days of 2020 data to Medicare for PI & IA with a full year of 6 quality measures including an outcome measure, you may earn a neutral or small positive payment adjustment.
Submit a Full Year
If you submit a full year of 2020 data to Medicare, you may earn a moderate positive payment adjustment.
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