tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q2

Quality Payment Program: Get MIPS Credit for COVID-19 Clinical Trial Data

Bonus: The improvement activity carries a higher-than-average weight. If you’re still collecting data to submit to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in 2020 — and are involved in clinical trials related to COVID-19 — the feds have a potentially attractive new option available. Background: On April 20, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added a new submission option for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participants. The update encourages MIPS-eligible clinicians working on COVID-19 research to use that data to attest under the Improvement Activities category and offers higher-than-usual weight to the submission. The clinical trial attestations...

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