Read this eGuide to learn what’s new, updated or removed for the 2024 IA Category and the most commonly used Improvement Activities for AdvancedMD users. Whether you’re new to MACRA and MIPS or have a vast amount of experience, this step-by-step guide is designed to walk you through the key elements of MACRA Improvement Activities … Continued

Doctors who provide services to Medicare patients have two tracks to choose from to receive payments under the Quality Payment Program based on their practice size, specialty, location, or patient population: Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) or Advanced Alternative Payment Models. MIPS is composed of four categories that provide clinicians the flexibility to choose the … Continued

The “Quality” category is one of four categories Medicare providers are measured against for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) under the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The quality category alone is valued at 30% of a provider’s final score. A high “Quality” score is measured by case volume and data completeness. To be reliably scored … Continued

The “Promoting Interoperability” category is one of four categories Medicare providers are measured against for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) under the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The PI category alone is valued at 25% of a provider’s final score. To earn full credit for the “Promoting Interoperability” score, providers are measured by five objectives … Continued

5 MACRA Facts Every Medical Practitioner Should Know  With so many acronyms and changes happening to the Medicare program over the past several years, it’s no wonder MACRA is often not fully understood. We wrote this eBook to give you all the main facts about MACRA to guide your independent medical practice. Read this eBook … Continued

Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) are tools used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, most widely known as CMS, to help measure and track the quality of healthcare services provided by eligible hospitals, as generated by a provider’s EHR. Each year, CMS makes updates to the eCQMs approved for CMS programs to reflect … Continued

The “Improvement Activities” category is one of four categories Medicare providers are measured against for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) under the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The IA category alone is valued at 15% of a provider’s final score. To earn full credit in the “Improvement Activities” category a provider must submit one of … Continued

New users to QPP.CMS.GOV – Register now for a HARP Account If you have never signed into QPP.CMS.GOV, you will need to register with HARP to obtain the necessary credentials to log in. This should take 5-15 minutes depending on how quickly your identity can be verified. HARP works with Experian for this process. Download … Continued

The MACRA experts at AdvancedMD have produced this free guide in our MACRA Survival Series to help you understand the MIPS highlights for year 6. This step-by-step guide is designed to walk you through key elements of MIPS. Within MIPS Performance Categories for 2022, 30% of the weight is focused on Quality, 25% of Promoting … Continued