Attention Physicians:
CMS is providing free Continuing Medical Education through
the completion of online training modules.
All modules apply to Medicare
Fee-for-Service Quality Payment Programs.
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Learn More About MIPS
and Earn CME Credit with These 2019 CME Modules
CMS has posted 6 continuing medical
education (CME) modules on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). You
can access them by logging into your Medicare
Learning Network (MLN) account or creating one here. Once
logged in, type the name of the module into the search bar at the top of the
website to find it.
The new MIPS CME modules include:
- Quality
Payment Program 2019 Overview
– Provides information on the origin and objectives of the program as well
as an overview of the MIPS and Advanced Alternative Payment Models.
- Quality
Payment Program Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Participation
in 2019 – Details MIPS eligibility and
participation options, including the new opt-in policy, and how to report
MIPS data.
- Quality
Payment Program Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Quality
Performance Category in 2019
– Explains the requirements, data submission and collection types, and scoring
for the Quality performance category.
- Quality
Payment Program Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Promoting
Interoperability Performance Category in 2019 – Provides information on reporting requirements,
measures, and reweighting for the Promoting Interoperability performance
category.
- Quality
Payment Program Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Improvement
Activities in 2019
– Explains the requirements, reporting steps, and scoring for the
Improvement Activities performance category.
- Quality
Payment Program Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Cost
Performance Category in 2019 –
Provides information on new measures, attribution, and scoring for the
Cost performance category.
For More
Information
- Visit the CMS.gov MLN Web-Based Training webpage and log in to MLN to access the modules.
- Visit the QPP Resource Library to review new and existing QPP resources.
- Contact the Quality Payment
Program at QPP@cms.hhs.gov or 1-866-288-8292 (TTY: 1-877-715-6222). To receive
assistance more quickly, consider calling during non-peak hours—before 10
AM and after 2 PM ET.
