MIPS 2023—Key Dates for Performance Year 2023

This content is excerpted from EyeNet’s MIPS 2023: A Primer and Reference; also see the Academy’s MIPS hub page.

2022 

• Nov. 18: CMS publishes the 2023 MIPS rules in the Federal Register.
• Dec. 31: Deadline to form a virtual group for the 2023 performance year.

2023 

• Jan. 1: Start of 2023 MIPS performance year.
• Spring: CMS started accepting applications for 1) extreme and uncontrollable circumstances exceptions and 2) hardship exception to PI performance category.
• June 15: Deadline to sign agreements for IRIS Registry–EHR integration (if not already integrated).
• June 15: Deadline for IRIS Registry–EHR integrated users to report changes to their practice management system or EHR system, such as an upgrade, a change to their network server, a change to a cloud-based service, or a change to a new system.
• Aug. 1: For new integrated users, or existing users with EHR changes, deadline to complete integration of your EHR system with the IRIS Registry for automated transmission of 2023 quality data.
• Sept. 1: Deadline to add new clinicians and new locations for practices reporting via IRIS Registry–EHR integration. If notification is not made by this deadline, data for new clinicians or new locations can’t be integrated into the dashboard for the 2023 MIPS performance year.
• Oct. 3: Last day to start performance period for PI measures and improvement activities.
• Oct. 31: Deadline for new IRIS Registry users to sign agreements to use the IRIS Registry for manual
• reporting of improvement activities, PI measures, and quality measures.
• Nov. 30: Last day to request IRIS Registry mapping refinements for selected quality measures. (Verana Health extended this deadline, which was originally Oct. 31.)
• Dec. 31: End of 2023 MIPS performance year.

2024

• Jan. 2: Application deadline for 1) extreme and uncontrollable circumstances exceptions and 2) hardship exception to PI performance category.
• Jan. 31: Deadline to submit your 2023 IRIS Registry data release consent form.
• Jan. 31: Deadline for IRIS Registry users to complete manual entry of 2023 quality measure data, attest to PI measures, and attest to improvement activities.
• April 1: Last day to submit 2023 MIPS data if reporting directly to the CMS QPP attestation portal.
• Summer/Fall: CMS will provide you with feedback based on your 2023 performance year data. If you find any scoring errors, you should request a targeted review.  
• Summer/Fall: Targeted review request submission period starts after release of feedback data and ends 60 days later.
• Dec. 1: CMS must notify MIPS participants of their 2025 payment adjustment factor at least 30 days before the 2024 payment year.

2025

• Jan. 1: Your Medicare Part B reimbursements will start being adjusted up or down based on your 2023 MIPS performance.
• January: For a limited time, you can check that your 2023 measure data are accurate before CMS posts them at Care Compare. Find out more at cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Compare-DAC.

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