Quality Payment Program: CMS Offers COVID-19 Relief for QPP Participants

Why This Topic Matters

CMS quality reporting changes can affect whether organizations submit data, how performance is calculated, and how payment adjustments are determined. Understanding these temporary relief measures is important for compliance, reporting workflows, and planning around Medicare quality programs.

Article Sections

1. Know the extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy update

   Introduces CMS’s temporary relief framework during the COVID-19 public health emergency and the general reason the agency adjusted reporting expectations.

2. Here’s Why the Feds Eased Up on QPP Requirements

   Explains the broader rationale for the reporting relief and the types of organizations affected by the changes.

3. Know These MIPS Updates

   Summarizes the reporting timeline changes for MIPS participants and related implications for payment adjustments and future guidance.

4. See New 2019 QPP Submission Changes for Hospitals and PACs

   Describes the submission changes affecting hospitals and post-acute care programs, including how CMS treated certain reporting periods during 2019 and 2020.

5. AMA Weighs In

   Notes the response from the American Medical Association regarding CMS’s relief decisions during the pandemic.