Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
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2024 MIPS Value Pathway (MVP) Registration Now Open
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathways registration window is open for the 2024 performance year. Individuals, groups, subgroups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities that wish to report an MVP can register until December 2, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET.
Setting Our Sights Toward a Healthier, More Innovative, Data-Driven Future
By Seth Pazinski, Peter Karras, & Dustin Charles – The draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (the draft Plan) is now open for public comment. The public comment period on the draft Plan ends on May 28, 2024 at 11:59:59 PM ET. The draft Plan is a comprehensive and strategic effort developed by ONC in collaboration with more than 25 federal organizations.
Reopening of 2023 MIPS EUC Application in Response to Change Healthcare Cyberattack
CMS extended the data submission deadline to 4/15/24 and reopened the 2023 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception Application to provide relief to MIPS eligible clinicians impacted by this cybersecurity incident.
The ONC and Interoperability: Are We on the Right Path?
We have rounded up our usual suspects to comment on the ONC and their recent communication on looking forward, HTI-2 and their commitment to furthering the vision of better health enabled by data. Here is what they had to say.
QPP Deadline Extension for MIPS 2023 Data Submission
Now Open Until April 15. CMS has extended the data submission period for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who participated in the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP).
What’s Happening at the ONC
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the upcoming quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable, the upcoming USCDI+ Cancer Data Exchange Summit, the HITAC Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023, & more.
CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule Education Session
March 26, 2024, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET: Register and join CMS for their virtual education session on the Interoperability and Prior Authorization final rule. Questions can be submitted beforehand via the registration form.
CMS Guidance on Change Healthcare/ Optum Payment Disruption
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recognizes the impact that the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Change Healthcare/Optum in late February (the Incident) has had on health care operations across the country.