2025 MIPS Resources Now Available; CMS Soliciting Specialty Measure Sets Recommendations; Registration Open for 2025 SAFER Guides Webinar

Now Available: 2025 MIPS Resources The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is Soliciting Interested Party Recommendations for Potential Consideration of New Specialty Measure Sets and/or Revisions to the Existing Specialty Measure Sets for the 2026 Performance Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Registration Is Open for a January 21 Webinar: "Engineering Safety into Practice through Implementation of the 2025 SAFER Guides" Now Available: 2025 MIPS Resources The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted new 2025 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) resources to the QPP Resource Library. Please note, some of these resources are displaying incorrect posting dates on the QPP Resource Library. CMS is working to resolve the issue to reflect the correct dates resources are posted but all files are the most recent versions. 2025 MIPS Quality Measure Specifications The following documents, which provide comprehensive descriptions and details on 2025 quality measures, are available: 2025 MIPS Quality Measures List (XLS, 804KB) 2025 Medicare Part B Claims Measure Specifications and Supporting Documents (ZIP, 29MB) 2025 MIPS Clinical Quality Measure Specifications and Supporting Documents (ZIP, 68MB) 2025 Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) Measure Specifications (XLS, 680KB) 2025 Cross-Cutting Quality Measures (ZIP, 267KB) 2025 MVP Quality Measure Specifications for Quality IDs 112 113 and 128 (ZIP, 2MB) 2025 Hip Arthroplasty and Knee Arthroplasty (THA/TKA) Complications Measure (ZIP, 556KB) 2025 All-Cause, Unplanned Hospital-Wide Readmission Measure (ZIP, 854KB)  To note, the specifications for the following two measures will be posted in the coming days:  2025 Acute Cardiovascular-Related Admission Rates for Patients with Heart Failure 2025 Clinician and Clinician Group Risk-standardized Hospital Admission Rates for Patients with Multiple Chronic Condition As a reminder, the 2025 Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Specifications have been available on the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) website since Spring 2024. The slide deck and recording from the 2025 QPP Final Rule Webinar are available on the QPP Webinar Library. Additional 2025 MIPS Measures and Activities Resources The following resources related to other MIPS performance categories are now also available: 2025 Promoting Interoperability Measure Specifications (ZIP, 4MB) 2025 Improvement Activities Inventory and Activity Descriptions (ZIP, 831KB) 2025 MIPS Summary of Cost Measures (PDF, 340KB) 2025 Cost Measure Information Forms (ZIP, 19MB) 2025 MIPS Cost Measure Codes Lists (ZIP, 21KB)  The Explore Measures & Activities tool on the QPP website will be updated for the 2025 performance year soon. 2025 Quality Historical Benchmarks will also be available in the next month. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is Soliciting Interested Party Recommendations for Potential Consideration of New Specialty Measure Sets and/or Revisions to the Existing Specialty Measure Sets for the 2026 Performance Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) CMS is accepting recommendations from interested parties regarding potential new specialty measure sets and/or revisions to existing specialty measure sets for the 2026 performance year of MIPS. Recommendations for new specialty measure sets or revisions to the 2025 specialty measure sets should be based on the established 2025 MIPS quality measures. Visit the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library to view the 2025 MIPS quality measure specifications:  2025 Clinical Quality Measure Specifications and Supporting Documents (ZIP, 68MB) 2025 Medicare Part B Claims Measure Specifications and Supporting Documents (ZIP, 29MB)  In addition, specialty measure set recommendations may be accepted based on potential new MIPS quality measures that are being considered for implementation in the 2026 performance year. These potential MIPS quality measures can be found on the 2024 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List (XLSX, 79.9KB). The current 2025 specialty measure sets are located in the Appendix measure tables of the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule. As established in the CY 2025 Medicare PFS 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 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 to be considered:  Quality measure identifier (ID); Measure title; and 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.  Recommendation submissions for a new specialty measure set and/or revisions to the current specialty measure sets should be sent to the Practice Improvement and Measures Management Support (PIMMS) Quality Measures Support mailbox at PIMMSQualityMeasuresSupport@gdit.com.   Recommendation submissions will be accepted from interested parties through Friday, January 31, 2025.  All recommendations submitted by the aforementioned deadline will be considered and assessed for possible inclusion in rulemaking for the 2026 performance year of MIPS.  Recommendation submissions for new specialty measure sets, and/or revisions to the current 2025 specialty measure sets doesn't guarantee that the recommendations will be accepted, proposed, or finalized during rulemaking for the 2026 performance year. Determinations as to whether recommendations are accepted won't be communicated with stakeholders directly since they are being considered for the 2026 rulemaking cycle, but recommendations that are considered will be made public through publications of the CY 2026 Medicare PFS Proposed Rule and CY 2026 Medicare PFS Final Rule.   Registration Is Open for a January 21 Webinar: "Engineering Safety into Practice through Implementation of the 2025 SAFER Guides" As the modern healthcare delivery system continues to evolve, the safe and effective design, development, implementation, and use of electronic health records (EHRs) as the primary means of patient data collection, storage, retrieval, and communication becomes more apparent. The safety of patients, workforce, and the healthcare system requires a shared commitment and responsibility to evidence-based practices known to help the health IT community improve the safety and safe use of information systems vital to healthcare delivery. The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) guides are designed to help healthcare organizations of all sizes from individual practices to large hospital systems meet that responsibility by conducting proactive self-assessments to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their electronic health record (EHR) implementations. The 2025 SAFER guides have been updated and streamlined to focus on the highest risk, most commonly occurring issues that can be addressed through technology or practice changes to build system resilience. Register for a webinar on January 21 from 12 - 1 p.m. ET on engineering safety with Dean Sittig, PhD and Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, the authors of the SAFER Guides, as they discuss the development of this latest version and the use of the guides for self-assessments.  You're getting this message because you subscribed to get email updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). 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