This content is excerpted from EyeNet’s MIPS 2023: A Primer and Reference; also see the Academy’s MIPS hub page.
For the Provider to Patient Exchange objective, you must report your performance rate for the Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information measure. Meet this measure’s requirement for at least one patient.
What does electronic access involve? For this objective’s measure, electronic access must involve providing the patient (or the patient’s authorized representative) with both of the following:
- “Timely access to view online, download, and transmit his or her health information;” and
- Access to their health information using “any application of their choice that is configured to meet the technical specifications of the Application Programming Interface (API) in the MIPS eligible clinician’s certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT).”
For more detailed information on this measure see its listing at aao.org/medicare/promoting-interoperability/measures.
No exclusion. When CMS revamped PI in 2019, it described the Provide Patients Electronic Access measure as the “crux” of the performance category, which is why it decided not to provide an exclusion for the measure.
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