HealthIT Answers November 30, 2017
Dr. Pawan Jindal

In the last blog, we discussed the details on how the Cost Category Score would now be included in the calculation of the final MIPS score in 2018. Another significant addition to the scoring component in 2018 is the “Improvement Scoring” bonus points for the Quality and the Cost categories. As the name suggests, these are bonus points available in 2018 for demonstrating improvement as compared to 2017 for just these two categories. As 2017 is the first year for MIPS, 2018 will be the first year where these bonus points will be available.

Here are 10 things that you need to know about scoring improvement bonus points in the Quality category:

  1. Improvement Bonus Applied At The Category...

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