The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data submission deadline to April 30 at 8 pm E.S.T.
CMS also announced that the MIPS automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy will apply to eligible clinicians who are unable to submit their data by the April 30 deadline.
Qualifying clinicians will be identified automatically, without having to take any additional action, and will receive a neutral payment adjustment for the 2021 MIPS payment year.
CMS also reopened the MIPS extreme and uncontrollable circumstances application. Individual clinicians and groups that started but cannot complete their data submission, as well as virtual groups that are unable to start or complete their data submission, should apply. Applications submitted between April 3 and April 30 citing COVID-19 will override all previous data submissions.
Contact the Quality Payment Program at 866-288-8292, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. E.S.T. or by email at QPP@cms.hhs.gov.
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