Physician & Practice Timeline®

CMS recently announced that effective March 28, 2020, it will offer accelerated and advance payments for Medicare participating health care clinicians and suppliers to lessen financial hardships for physician practices. Clinicians who meet the qualifying criteria may request up to 100% Medicare payments for a three-month period. The payments will be subject to recoupment within 180 days. Visit the press release and fact sheet for more information.

You can now read ACP’s summary and analysis on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Quality Payment Program, and Other Federal Programs at acponline.org.

If you submitted 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data, you can view your performance feedback and MIPS final score on the QPP website. You can also log in using your HCQIS Access Role and Profile (HARP) credentials. If you do not have a HARP account, please use the QPP Access User Guide.

CMS updated its QPP Participation Status Tool based on the first snapshot of data from Alternative Payment Model (APM) entities. The tool includes 2019 Qualifying APM Participant (QP) and participation status in an Alternative Payment Model that qualifies for the APM scoring standard.