Question: If we have PTs that are reporting via claims for quality measures, will the CMS attestation portal be available for performance year 2019 to report Improvement Activities? How in depth is the documentation that the therapist has to keep for the activities they are attesting to? February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: In the case that there are not 6 measures for a discipline to report in the following cases, can you please advise how this will impact the score? 1. Speech and Language Pathology/Speech Therapist: Only 3 available measures at all times for this specialty 2. Physical Therapy: Usually 6 128 130 131 154 155 182 If, however, the patient is not at risk for falls and does not need a falls POC, they are at 4 measures for that EOC; some patients would then have 6 measures and others would have 4. If you could indicate how this would impact the score, it would be greatly appreciated. Therapists are concerned they are going to have difficulty meeting the data completeness threshold or falling short on points for that category. January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: It was proposed that measure 154 and 155, Falls Risk assessment and Falls POC will be going away and replaced with a combined measure. Can you please verify if this is accurate? If so, physical therapist will now only have 5 measures to report (unless reporting via a QCDR or qualified registry). What happens to their score if this is the case? January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: Can you advise on how I should be using the data on the QPP lookup tool? While it has the 2018 data present, it still lists physical therapists as “not an eligible provider type”. As we’re directing PTs to the site to see if they meet the low performance threshold based on data previous years, they are not understanding how to use this page to determine if they will have to report this year as a mandatory reporter or if they can “opt-in” since it does not seem the data is up-to-date to see if they have to participate (again, primarily because it says not an eligible provider. Please advise on how a physical therapist, where the 2019 performance year is the first year where we would have to submit MIPS measures, should evaluate whether they are mandatory reporters, or if they don’t meet all 3 of the low-volume threshold and can opt-in? January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: If I am a clinician in my 1st year of Medicare Part B participation but I join a practice that is reporting as a group, is it mandatory that I report? January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: If you submit via a QCDR and also claims, will that cause problems? January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: If you submit 1/2 of the year via claims and switch to a registry mid-year, how will your score be calculated if submitting via an individual NPI? January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: Is there a way to check your MIPS score quarterly to see how you’re doing if you’re submitting via claims? January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: How does a PT/OT private practice meet the PI measures? Most EHR’s in this space are not CEHRT certified across the board. To be fully CEHRT certified there are a lot of standards that a private practice will not perform. Will it be good enough to use an EHR that meets the base measures for PI? January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
Q: Did I hear that correctly that practices with more than 15 clinicians cannot report quality by way of claims? January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 hartjohnson Posted in MIPS FAQ's
