American Hospital Association May 20, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will reweight the cost performance category for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System from 15% to 0% for the 2020 performance period — which affects 2022 payments — due to the impact of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and redistribute the 15% prescribed weight to another performance category or categories.
“Our analysis of the underlying data for the 2020 performance year, in comparison to prior years’ data, shows that the volume...