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COVID 19 UPDATE - Automatic Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy 

 02/25/2021 | CMS.GOV  | Read Time: 1 minute

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing multiple flexibilities for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic public health emergency (PHE).

For the 2020 performance year, we are applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to all individual MIPS eligible clinicians. MIPS eligible clinicians reporting as individuals will only be scored on performance categories for which data was submitted. All other performance categories will be reweighted to 0% of their final score.

• MIPS eligible clinicians who don’t submit 2020 MIPS data by the March 31, 2021 deadline will automatically receive a neutral payment adjustment.
• MIPS eligible clinicians reporting as individuals who submit 2020 MIPS data for one performance category by the March 31, 2021 deadline will automatically receive a neutral payment adjustment.
• MIPS eligible clinicians reporting as individuals who submit 2020 MIPS data for 2 or 3 performance categories by the March 31, 2021 deadline will receive a final score based on the performance categories for which data is submitted and may earn a negative, neutral or positive payment adjustment.

READ MORE: https://qpp.cms.gov/resources/covid19

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