The scores went up, but when applied to all the providers reporting, that dilutes the pool for the adjustments overall. We also saw an increase in score and a drop in adjustment. See the paragraph below from the CMS announcement.
Addressing and correcting for the above elements resulted in changes to the 2017 MIPS final score and associated 2019 MIPS payment adjustment for the clinicians who were impacted by the identified issues. Additionally, in order to ensure that we maintain the budget neutrality that is required by law under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), some clinicians will see slight changes in their payment adjustment as a result of the reapplication of budget neutrality. These revisions were made to the performance feedback on the Quality Payment Program website on September 13, 2018.
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Lois Stewart-Wiebe
Client Service Practice Manager
Affiliated Professional Services, Inc./APS
Wareham MA
(901) 322-6053
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-17-2018 15:52
From: Vicki Parikh
Subject: MIPS Final Scores
Hi,
Did anyone see a reduction in their payment adjustment following the recent update? We had +2.02% before but now see it has been reduced!
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Vicki Parikh
Practice Administrator
Mid-Delaware Imaging
Original Message:
Sent: 07-02-2018 11:15
From: David Smith
Subject: MIPS Final Scores
In case you haven't seen by other means, CMS has posted the MIPS final scores at qpp.cms.gov.
It seems that the $500 million budget for exceptional performance didn't go very far. We got a 2.02% adjustment for a 100/100 score.
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David Smith FACMPE
Executive Director
United Imaging Consultants
Mission KS
(785) 393-8387
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