March Deadlines for 2019 MIPS Submission

The deadline for 2019 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data submission is right around the corner.

Data for quality, promoting interoperability and improvement activities can be submitted or updated until 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 31.

The last day to submit via the ACR RISE Qualified Clinical Data Registry is Monday, March 16.

Participating clinicians should:

Submit collected data for at least six measures or a complete specialty measure set; and
One of these measures should be an outcome measure; if you have no applicable outcome measure, you can submit another high-priority measure instead.

For questions specific to the Quality Payment Program, contact the CMS at 1-866-288-8292, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m. EDT or by email at [email protected]. For questions regarding submissions via the ACR RISE registry, contact RISE staff at 404-633-3777 or by email at [email protected].

The advent of quality-based healthcare, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), requires rheumatology professionals to demonstrate their practice is based on interventions supported by the best available evidence and that their practice, in turn, provides quality care. These requirements have increased the need for methods to measure and quantify…

Practice-based evidence, like that in the RISE registry, can be used to describe trends in patient care, look at comparative effectiveness of interventions and much more.

The ACR’s RISE registry offers answers on real-world experience to researchers.

Implementation of the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) began Jan. 1. What does this mean for rheumatologists? It means you must pick the measures by which you will be evaluated and the pace at which you will begin reporting in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System or participating in an Advanced Alternative…

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