CMS provides additional details on quality reporting and value program relief
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this weekend announced additional details about its implementation of reporting exceptions and extensions across is quality reporting and value programs. The agency is sharing the following resources:
- Guidance Memo - Quality Reporting and Value-based Purchasing Programs, describing specific changes to CMS provider, hospital and post-acute care quality reporting programs.
- Quality Payment Program COVID-19 Factsheet, outlining Merit-based Incentive Payment System extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy and procedures for MIPS-eligible clinicians affected by COVID-19.
Read AHA’s March 22 Advisory on CMS’ data reporting exceptions and extensions across its quality reporting and value-based payment programs for hospitals, post-acute care facilities and clinicians.
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