Quality Payment Program: Feds Rework MIPS Policies Again For 2020

Why This Topic Matters

The proposed changes may affect how practices perform under MIPS and understand future Medicare payment adjustments, making it important for organizations that participate in the Quality Payment Program to monitor policy shifts and comment deadlines.

Article Sections

1. See What’s on the MIPS 2020 Proposal Agenda

   Introduces the major topics in the 2020 proposed rule and frames the policy changes discussed in the article.

2. Performance threshold

   Covers CMS’s proposed changes to MIPS performance thresholds and the broader context for future payment adjustments.

3. Penalty increase

   Summarizes the proposed increase in the maximum negative payment adjustment for the relevant performance year.

4. Category reweighting

   Reviews the proposed redistribution of MIPS category weights across future years and notes how category scoring may shift.

5. Improvement Activities

   Describes proposed updates related to Improvement Activities participation expectations for MIPS-eligible clinicians.

6. MIPS Final Score analysis

   Presents CMS’s reported Final Score trends and commentary on the observed changes over multiple performance years.