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MIPS 2022: Promoting Interoperability
Mastering and understanding the changes of the CMS MIPS Promoting Interoperability (PI) category should be a key part of your 2022 strategy. Here’s what you need to know!
Transitioning from the CMS Oncology Care Model (OCM) to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
With the Oncology Care Model no longer an options for oncology practice former participants must navigate the cross-over to the CMS MIPS program.
The Secret Recipe for MIPS Quality Measure Selection
Find out the best way to unlock the point potential of CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Quality measures. Follow this guidance to help make the most of your MIPS score.
MIPS 2022 - Navigating the Path to Achieve More Than 75 Points
The CMS MIPS program for 2022 requires a score of 75 out of 100 to avoid up to a 9% penalty. This blog and our multi-week series can get you started down the right path and align you with an expert to steer things to success!
Risks of MIPS as a DIY Project
Taking on a federal program with thousands of pages of policy and regulation can have its drawbacks. Here we breakdown the CMS merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) risks that result in taking it on without a professional.
MIPS 2022 Final Rule
The MIPS 2022 Final Rule is now available. We’ve got the need-to-know bullets on what’s changing by category in the CMS QPP program. If you participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System checkout the changes in all four categories.
9 MIPS Tips to Stay on Track for the Last 90 Days of 2021
The 2021 CMS MIPS performance year has entered it’s last 90 days. These 9 tips can keep you on track for an incentive and help ensure a smooth finish to the year!
Staying the Course for MIPS 2021 Can Pay Off Bigger Than Ever Before
Every MIPS point will help you earn your fair share of the possible incentive money this year. Let’s talk about what can you do in each category to stay on track and protect your reimbursement.
Tackling the CMS 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Rule
The 2022 proposed rule includes over thirty changes to how providers can qualify as Medicare providers and bill for covered services. We point out three here.
Reopen With Confidence
When the time is right, reopening prepared, ready to communicate, and live a new practice “normal” will be critical. In these uncertain times making sure physical practice changes, staff training, workflow, and supplies align will be important in a successful reopening.
Why We Write Annual MIPS Manuals
Q: Why do I write the MIPS Manual each year?
A: To save you valuable time and resources, so that you don’t have to put the pieces from CMS together yourself.
MIPS 2020: harder than a New Year’s Resolution
Much like with New Year’s resolutions, MIPS 2020 will require immediate attention and consistency to be successful. Just like a failed resolution, lack of action will have you throwing your hands in the air and waiting to begin again in January 2021.
MIPS 2020 Final Rule in Easy-to-Read Bullets
As experts of the MIPS Quality Payment Program, we are bringing you the MIPS highlights to you section-by-section segments and give you the most pertinent bullets.
MIPS Scores Are Now Public!
If you’re wondering how your 2017 MIPS score compares to the national average, we are sharing our MIPS Score lookup tool to help you understand how either individual clinician(s) or a group performed.
MIPS Audits Have Begun
We want to make sure you’re prepared, so if you happen to receive one of these surprise DVA letters, here’s what you should know.
MIPS Scores Impact More Than Medicare Revenue
If simply avoiding the MIPS penalty or choosing not to participate in hopes that the program would go away was your strategy, perhaps it’s time to reconsider.
Top 5 Mistakes in MIPS Quality
As MIPS consultants, we notice when clients are making one of these five common mistakes and help them course-correct. We’ve outlined the five mistakes below. Are you guilty of any of these?