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Medicare Payment Policy

CMS has released resources to prepare physicians for the 2024 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance year.

Important Dates

  • January 1, 2024: 2024 MIPS performance year begins
  • December 31, 2024: The MIPS EUC Exception application is available until 8 PM ET.
  • January 2, 2025: MIPS Submission window opens
  • March 31, 2025: MIPS submission window closes at 8 PM ET
  • Early Summer 2025: MIPS Final Scores available
  • Summer 2025: Payment Adjustment information available
  • January 1, 2026: PY 2024 Payment Adjustments go into effect

Reporting Information

  • You'll need to submit collected data for at least six quality measures (including one outcome measure or high-priority measure in the absence of an applicable outcome measure) or a complete specialty measure set.
  • New for 2024: Beginning with the 2024 performance period, you'll need to report performance data for at least 75% of the denominator-eligible cases for each quality measure (data completeness), which is an increase from the previous data completeness threshold of 70%.
  • You can submit measures from different collection types to fulfill the requirement to report data for at least six quality measures.

2024 Performance Year Resources

ASPS encourages members to visit the QPP website and QPP Resource Library to check their eligibility and review a comprehensive list of resources.

ASPS QCDR

  • Based on low participation and mounting costs tied to ongoing CMS requirements, the ASPS/PSF Executive Committee made the difficult decision to sunset the ASPS-QCDR following the 2022 performance year (ending Spring 2023).
  • What does this mean for the 2023 Performance Year and Beyond?
    • No member will be able to register via the ASPS-QCDR for the 2023 PY and Beyond.
    • Potential submission pathways: