Read EyeNet’s MIPS 2022 resources. EyeNet is developing—with support from Regeneron—MIPS 2022: A Primer and Reference. Starting in December 2021, as content for each section is completed, it will be posted online (see links below) ahead of print. Furthermore, guides to what’s new with MIPS were also published online in December (see "What's New for 2022," below) ahead of print publication in the the January (Part 1) and February (Part 2) issues of EyeNet.
The Academy can help you succeed at MIPS. The Academy has developed a rich range of ophthalmic-specific tools and resources. Make sure you are signed up to use the IRIS Registry and bookmark the Academy’s MIPS hub page.
Your MIPS Final Score
Reweighting the Performance Categories
Performance Periods
Bonuses and Penalties
Who Does (and Doesn’t) Take Part in MIPS
What’s Your MIPS Participation Status
Low-Volume Clinicians Can Opt in to MIPS
Small or Large Practice?
Use of TINs and NPIs as Identifiers
Participate as an Individual or as a Group?
Key Dates for Performance Year 2022 (Coming Soon)
Your Guide to MIPS Acronyms (Coming Soon)
What’s New With Your MIPS Final Score and Payment Adjustments
Small Practices—New Policies for Reweighting PI
What’s New With Quality
What’s New With Promoting Interoperability
What’s New With Improvement Activities
What’s New With Cost
Quality: An Overview
Pick Your Collection Type
Reporting Quality Measures
Meet the Data Submission Thresholds
Manual Reporters Via the IRIS Registry Will Need Their Data-Completeness Totals
Scoring: Your Performance Rate Will Be Compared Against a Benchmark
Scoring: Some Benchmarks Are Subject to Scoring Limitations
Scoring: Some Benchmarks Are “Flat”
Scoring: No More Bonuses for High-Priority Measures and CEHRT
Scoring: You Can Earn an Improvement Percent Score
Scoring: How CMS Calculates Your Quality Score
ICD-10 Turbulence and Changes in Clinical Guidelines
Table: Quality Measures (coming soon)
Table: Quality Measures (coming soon
PI: An Overview
PI: Your EHR System Must Be a CEHRT
PI: What You Need to Do
PI: How You’ll Be Scored
PI: Some Clinicians May Be Excused From Promoting Interoperability
Table: Promoting Interoperability at a Glance
Table: Promoting Interoperability Exclusions at a Glance
Table: Promoting Interoperability Scoring Methodology
Use the IRIS Registry. This free member benefit is eye care’s tool of choice for MIPS.
Stay tuned! This information reflects the Academy’s knowledge of the regulations at time of press, but CMS payment policies can change. For MIPS updates, bookmark the Academy’s MIPS hub page, visit the MIPS-specific news feed, and check your email for:
DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Meeting regulatory requirements is a complicated process involving continually changing rules and the application of judgment to factual situations. The Academy does not guarantee or warrant that regulators and public or private payers will agree with the Academy’s information or recommendations. The Academy shall not be liable to you or any other party to any extent whatsoever for errors in, or omissions from, any such information provided by the Academy, its employees, agents, or representatives.
COPYRIGHT© 2022, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Inc.® All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. American Academy of Ophthalmic Executives®, IRIS® Registry, the Focus logo, Protecting Sight, Empowering Lives®, among other marks, are trademarks of the American Academy of Ophthalmology®.
All of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO )–developed quality measures are copyrighted by the AAO’s H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, Center for Quality Eye Care (see terms of use).