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- 2021 MIPS Final Score Preview Now Available
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the final score preview period for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Authorized representatives of practices, virtual groups, and alternative payment model (APM) entities can now sign into the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website to preview 2021 MIPS final scores. The MIPS final score preview period is available until final performance feedback, including payment adjustments, is released in August 2022.
The preview period is a new phase of MIPS performance feedback that will provide clinicians with the opportunity to preview their final score prior to the release of payment adjustment information. As a reminder, your 2021 final score is what will determine your 2023 MIPS payment adjustment.
MIPS Scores and Large Pathology Practices
Large practices with more than 15 clinicians can no longer avoid penalties, or negative MIPS payment adjustments, using QPP measures reported through their billing companies. The CAP encourages large practices to reach out to the CAP to review options available for 2023 to ensure they can avoid future MIPS penalties. Further, large practices relying solely on the six pathology quality measures in the public domain for reporting in 2023 may not earn the points required to avoid a Medicare penalty in 2025. The CAP’s Pathologists Quality Registry can optimize a pathology practice’s MIPS scores. Email mips@cap.org for more information.