Health Information Compliance Alert

Published on Thu Apr 07, 2022 PDF

Offer your thoughts on future policies for the 2024 performance year now.

If you want to have a say in future measures planning, the Quality Payment Program (QPP) wants to hear your ideas.

Logistics: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) measures for the Promoting Interoperability (PI) and Improvement Activities (IA) performance categories. The submission period runs until July 1, 2022, and is for the 2024 performance year.

If you are interested in offering your two cents on PI measures, “CMS is looking for specific measures that build on the advanced use of certified EHR technology (CEHRT) using 2015 Edition Certification Standards and Criteria,” an agency alert says. Other measures focus areas include data exchange, administrative burden cuts, IT flexibility and effectiveness, and IA and Quality category alignment.

Under the IA measures umbrella, CMS is searching for “activities that can be considered higher than the standard of care. This means that the sets of practices or activities being proposed for consideration exceed defined, commonly accepted guidelines for level of quality or attainment in clinical care or quality improvement guidelines,” the alert notes.

Review the MIPS 2022 Call for Measures and Activities fact sheet and toolkit, which can be found in the QPP resource library at https://qpp.cms.gov/resources/resource-library.