MIPS Reporting Strategy to Avoid a Penalty

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MIPS Reporting Strategy to Avoid a Penalty
Are you trying to avoid a 5 MIPS penalty in
2019? Get answers of below questions and avoid
MIPS penalty. 1. Are you required to report
under MICRA? Check the newly updated Centers for
Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) online tool to
see whether you must participate in MIPS. All you
need is your National Provider Identifier (NPI)
to learn if youre required to participate in
2019. CMS will not mail MIPS status letters to
group practices in 2019, so its important to
check the lookup tool to determine your
status. As per CMS estimates only 37 of
physicians will be subject to MIPS. 2. Is your
practice is small? If you have less than 16
clinicians, you qualify as a small practice. If
so, you get special benefits and it will be
easier to report! Clinicians include physicians
as well as physician assistants and advanced
practice nurses. If youre not a small practice,
dont lose hopes. Youll need to do more, but you
can still meet the minimum 2019 reporting
requirements.
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MIPS Reporting Strategy to Avoid a Penalty

• 3. Are you improving your activities and quality
  measures?
• Improvement Activities (IA)
• There are 113 possible IAs detailed on the
  Quality Payment Program website. Choose
  activities that work for your practice and
  implement them for at least 90 days. Reporting
  improvement activities has certain advantages
• Quality Measures
• Quality measures can be reported in several ways
  by EHR, registry, QCDR, CAHPS for MIPS Survey
  (groups only), and Claims. CMS has a full list of
  quality measures and possible reporting methods
  for each.
• When choosing quality measures, remember the
  following
• Small practices (lt16 clinicians) only need to
  report some data for each measure.
• Large practices (16 clinicians) must meet data
  completeness requirements (60 of applicable
  patient encounters over 12 months).
• If you plan to submit quality measures via
  claims, you cant report as a group.

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4. Still, need help? CMS has a plenty of
resources to help you ranging from videos and
online courses to help desk and in-person
assistance. Dont hesitate to reach out if you
need help. Also, you can reach out to Medisys
Data Solutions Inc. for billing and coding
solutions help to boost your cash flow and avoid
any kind of penalties.
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