Are you unsure of your participation status in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)?
Clinicians can now use an interactive tool on the CMS Quality Payment Program website to determine if they should participate in the MIPS track of the Quality Payment Program in 2017.
To determine your status, enter your national provider identifier (NPI) into the entry field on the tool, which can be found on the Quality Payment Program website at https://qpp.cms.gov/. Information will then be provided on whether or not you should participate in MIPS this year and where to find resources.
Participation criteria
You will participate in MIPS in 2017 if you:
- Bill Medicare Part B more than $30,000 a year AND
- See more than 100 Medicare patients a year.
You must also be a:
- Physician
- Physician assistant
- Nurse practitioner
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Certified nurse practitioner
If you are new to Medicare in 2017, you do not participate in MIPS. You may also be exempt if you qualify for one of the special rules for certain types of clinicians, or are participating in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM). To learn more, review the MIPS Participation Fact Sheet.
If you are not in the program in 2017, you can participate voluntarily and you will not be subject to payment adjustments.
Participation status
CMS recently sent letters in the mail notifying clinicians of their MIPS participation status.
For more information, visit the Quality Payment Program website. The Quality Payment Program Service Center may be reached at 1-866-288-8292 (TTY 1-877-715- 6222), available Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM-8:00 PM ET or via email at QPP@cms.hhs.gov.
