Quality (45%)
Replacing PQRS, this category focuses on the quality of care you deliver, based on CMS performance measures as well as stakeholders and other medical professionals. You can pick six measures of performance that best suit your practice.
Promoting Interoperability (25%)
This category covers patient engagement as well as the use of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) during exchange of information. This is done by actively sharing information in a comprehensive manner with patients and other clinicians. These include sharing visit summaries, therapeutic plans and test results with patients and other facilities.
Improvement Activities (15%)
A relatively new category, this is used to measure your participation in improvement of your practice. This includes activities that can improve your patient engagement, increase access to care. You are allowed to choose activities that better suit your practice such as patient and clinical shared decision-making, expansion of practice access and enhancing care coordination.
Cost Measures (15%)
This category replaces VBM. The cost of the care you provide to patients based on your Medicare claims is calculated by CMS. MIPS measures the total cost care throughout the year or during a patient’s hospital stay.