Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Notes:

CMS Updates Cost Category for MIPS 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to reweight the cost category to zero for the 2021 performance year/2023 payment year, the agency noted in an April 25 email alert. “Due to COVID-19’s impact on cost measures, we’re reweighting the cost performance category from 20 percent to 0 percent for the 2021 performance period. The 20 percent cost [...]
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