CMS adds cyberattack hardship option to MIPS Emergency Application
Practices have until Dec. 31 to file a hardship application and avoid a 2026 MIPS negative payment adjustment.
2023 MIPS Emergency Exception Applications reopened due to Change Healthcare cyberattack
CMS will only approve applications citing this cyberattack as the basis for requesting reweighting under the MIPS EUC Exception.
Information Blocking
The ONC has not enforced or issued penalties for physicians violating the information blocking prohibition – until now.
2024 MIPS Proposed Changes
This article provides a summary of key proposals and changes to the traditional MIPS program that will impact allergists.
2023 MIPS Allergy/Immunology Specialty Quality Measures Set
CMS removed two popular quality measures from traditional MIPS – and from the allergy/immunology quality specialty measures set – in 2023.
CMS extends MIPS hardship exemption in 2023
CMS announced physicians and group practices can apply for a 2023 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) hardship exception.
2023 MIPS Audits
CMS announced that, starting in January 2023, it would begin auditing clinicians for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) 2019, 2020, and 2021 perfo…
2023 QPP key changes
For the 2023 performance year, CMS kept the performance threshold at 75 points.
… results in MIPS and Advocacy Resources.
