CMS is Accepting Stakeholder Recommendations for Specialty Measure Sets for the PY 2024 MIPS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is Soliciting Stakeholder Recommendations for Potential Consideration of New Specialty Measure Sets and/or Revisions to the Existing Specialty Measure Sets for the 2024 Performance Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) CMS is accepting interested party recommendations regarding potential new specialty measure sets and/or revisions to existing specialty measure sets for the 2024 performance year of MIPS. Recommendations for new specialty measure sets or revisions to the 2023 specialty sets should be based on the established 2023 MIPS quality measures. Visit the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library to view the 2023 MIPS quality measure specifications. In addition, specialty measure set recommendations may be accepted based on potential new MIPS quality measures that are being considered for implementation in the 2024 performance year. These potential MIPS quality measures can be found on the 2022 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List. The current 2023 specialty measure sets are located in the Appendix measure tables of the calendar year (CY) 2023 Quality Payment Program final rule with comment period located on the QPP Resource Library. As established in the CY 2023 Quality Payment Program final rule, specialty measure sets currently exist for the following specialties: Allergy/Immunology Anesthesiology Audiology Cardiology Certified Nurse Midwife Chiropractic Medicine Clinical Social Work Dentistry Dermatology Diagnostic Radiology Electrophysiology Cardiac Specialist (a subspecialty of Cardiology) Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Medicine Gastroenterology General Surgery Geriatrics Hospitalists Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Interventional Radiology Mental/Behavioral Health and Psychiatry Nephrology Neurology Neurosurgical Nutrition/Dietician Obstetrics/Gynecology Oncology/Hematology Ophthalmology and Optometry Orthopedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pathology Pediatrics Physical Medicine Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy Plastic Surgery Podiatry Preventive Medicine Pulmonology Radiation Oncology Rheumatology Skilled Nursing Facility Speech Language Pathology Thoracic Surgery Urgent Care Urology Vascular Surgery Each recommendation must include the following in order to be considered: Quality measure identifier (ID) Measure title Rationale and/or documentation that supports inclusion or exclusion of the current quality measure(s) from existing specialty measure sets or inclusion in new specialty measure sets Submissions of recommendations for a new specialty measure set and/or revisions to the current 2023 specialty measure sets should be sent to the Practice Improvement and Measures Management Support (PIMMS) Quality Measures Support mailbox at PIMMSQualityMeasuresSupport@gdit.com. Submissions of recommendations will be accepted from interested parties up until close of business on Monday, February 13, 2023. All recommendations submitted by the aforementioned deadline will be considered and assessed for possible inclusion in rulemaking for the 2024 performance year of the QPP. Note: Submissions of recommendations for new specialty measure sets, and/or revisions to the current 2023 specialty measure sets, does not guarantee that the recommendation will be accepted, proposed, or finalized during rulemaking for the 2024 performance year of the QPP. Determinations as to whether recommendations are accepted will not be communicated with stakeholders directly, since they are being considered for the 2024 performance year but will be made evident through publications of the CY 2024 Quality Payment Program proposed and final rule. You're getting this message because you subscribed to get email updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. This service is provided to you at no charge by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This email was sent to edwardlorilla1986.paxforex@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud 7500 Security Boulevard · Baltimore MD 21244