Free Continuing Medical Education for Physicians from CMS

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.  CMS sent the email below to subscribers to Medlearn Matters.  If you would like to receive future notifications directly, you can sign up one the Medlearn Matters Electronic Mailing List Page.

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.