tci Part B Insider - 2022 Issue Q2

Physician Notes: CMS Offers New Update on Cost Category for MIPS 2021

COVID’s impact continues to reshape quality programs. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to reweight the cost category to zero for the 2021 performance year/2023 payment year, the agency noted in an April 25 email alert. “Due to COVID-19’s impact on cost measures, we’re reweighting the cost performance category from 20 percent to 0 percent for the 2021 performance period. The 20 percent cost performance category weight will be redistributed to other performance categories,” CMS said in the update. CMS had already reweighted the cost category for individual Merit-Based Incentive Payment...

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