Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
CMS Extends MIPS 2020 Uncontrollable Circumstances Application Deadline
If you are thinking of submitting a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) application for hardships you’ve endured over the last year due to COVID-19, you’ve got another month now. Details: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the MIPS extreme and uncontrollable circumstances applications from Dec. 31, 2020 to Feb. 1, 2021. “For the 2020 performance year, CMS will be using our extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to allow MIPS-eligible clinicians, groups, and virtual groups to submit an application requesting reweighting of one or more MIPS performance categories to 0 percent due to the current COVID-19 public health emergency,” noted the agency in an alert. Find more information about the two application options and how to submit at https://qpp.cms.gov/mips/exception-applications#extremeCircumstancesException-2020. 
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