{"id":247,"date":"2017-11-20T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mgsionline.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T09:15:18","slug":"important-information-regarding-mips-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgsionline.com\/blog\/important-information-regarding-mips-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING MIPS REPORTING"},"content":{"rendered":"

CMS sent out a final rule regarding MIPS for 2018 on Thursday, November 2nd<\/sup>, 2017.\u00a0 In this rule Medicare has included information regarding exemptions for areas impacted by recent hurricanes.\u00a0 Certain counties and parishes in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina will be automatically exempt from reporting MIPS for year 2017.\u00a0 Physicians and providers are still allowed to report if they are willing and able, however, for those that cannot they do not have to worry about getting the 4% penalty in year 2019.<\/p>\n

Below is the excerpt (page 1174) from the CMS QPP Year 2 Final Rule regarding the exemption \u00a0\u00a0Please note that clinicians that submit data can still potentially earn a positive payment adjustment based on their final performance score.\u00a0 The Final rule in its entirety can be found at https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2017\/11\/16\/2017-24067\/medicare-programs-cy-2018-updates-to-the-quality-payment-program-and-quality-payment-program-extreme<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Regions Impacted by Harvey, Irma, and Maria<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We believe the recent Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria are triggering events for the automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstance policy we are adopting in this interim final rule with comment period. The regions impacted by these events are defined as a major disaster county, municipal (municipio in Spanish), or county-equivalent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and are:<\/p>\n