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TMF Health Quality Institute helps clinicians successfully participate in the Quality Payment Program (QPP), the Medicare payment program that replaces fee-for-service reimbursement with a value-based approach that promotes efficient, patient-centered care.

TMF provides individualized support for all aspects of the QPP and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), one of the two QPP payment tracks. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with TMF to provide QPP assistance to clinicians in small (15 or fewer clinicians) and rural practices in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico and Texas.

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TMF MIPS Toolbox

The Toolbox is a free online application to help clinicians organize and monitor their MIPS participation.

CMS QPP Website

Check your MIPS eligibility, review category requirements, access resources and log in to your QPP Portal.

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CMS News: QPP Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period Is Open

The Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period is officially open. You can now preview your 2020 Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance information before it will appear on clinician and group profile pages on Medicare Care Compare.

Alert: CMS to Apply MIPS Automatic Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy for the 2021 Performance Year in Response to COVID-19

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to ALL individually eligible MIPS-eligible clinicians for the 2021 performance year. The automatic EUC policy doesn’t apply to groups, virtual groups, or Alternative Payment Model (APM) entities.

CMS News: CMS Publishes 2022 PFS Final Rule for the Quality Payment Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, which includes the final policies for the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program.

CMS Publishes 2022 PFS Final Rule for the Quality Payment Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which includes the final policies for the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program. The rule affects traditional Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways, the APM Performance Pathway, Advanced APMs and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program).

New CMS Resources Are Now Available on the QPP Resource Library

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has added several new Quality Payment Program (QPP) resources to the QPP Resource Library.

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Let's Talk QPP! Using Your MIPS Dashboard to Improve Workflows and Processes

One of the best tools to guide your practice improvement efforts is the electronic health record (EHR) dashboard. In this Nov. 10, 2021, webinar, TMF Quality Improvement Specialists demonstrate how to use dashboards to improve performance for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). We also touch on development of dashboards using applications other than your EHR dashboard.

QPP 2022 Final Rule Resources Zip File

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has prepared this ZIP file that contains a fact sheet that provides an overview of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Final Rule policies for the 2022 performance year, a Policies Comparison Table that compares the final 2022 performance year policies to the requirements for the 2021 performance year, a MIPS Value Pathways Policies Table that provides an overview of the policies for implementation of MVPs beginning in the 2023 performance year and FAQs for the 2022 QPP Final Rule policies.

Let's Talk QPP! Cybersecurity for the MIPS Practice

How can medical practices protect themselves from harm at the hands of cyber criminals? In this Oct. 27, 2021, webinar, TMF's Chief Information Security Officer Glori Euwer shares insights into common areas of vulnerability and how to protect your systems from attack.

Q&A: Keeping Your QPP Portal Up to Date

Once you create a Quality Payment Program (QPP) Portal account at qpp.cms.gov, some maintenance is required. This article reviews some key elements that need regular updating.

MIPS Toolbox User Guide

The TMF MIPS Toolbox is a free online application to help eligible clinicians manage their participation in the Quality Payment Program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Here is a detailed instruction guide.

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