CMS reweighing MIPS data for physicians and extending deadline
Healthcare Finance News March 2, 2022
Physician and digital teams, as well as others, have until March 31 to apply for a MIPS EUC waiver, and can have the information reweighed.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is allowing more time for doctors participating in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System to utilize an excessive and uncontrollable circumstance (EUC) waiver order that limits the negative impact of high-quality information to their funds.
Physician and digital teams, as well as others, have until March 31 to apply for a MIPS EUC waiver, and if the waiver is granted they then have the option to have their information reweighed to account for the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. If doctor teams do not submit information, they won’t incur...