Claiming a Hardship Exception

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CMS is granting sweeping hardship exceptions and implementing MIPS program flexibilities for the 2022 performance year. However, these exceptions are no longer granted automatically. To learn more, visit the QPP website. This page outlines the following policy changes.

MIPS Category Reweighting

Eligible clinicians, groups, and virtual groups may request a MIPS category reweighting by filing an Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception application by 5:00 p.m. (PT) on March 3, 2023. If CMS approves the exception application, ECs and groups will be scored on the categories for which they have submitted data. Categories for which they submit no data will be reweighted to zero. The exception application cannot be used to reweight categories for which data has already been submitted.

Extreme and Uncontrollable Events

Eligible clinicians who are located in a CMS-designated region that has been affected by such an extreme and uncontrollable event as FEMA-designated major disaster during the performance year receive the automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances exception. This automatic reweighting does not apply to groups or virtual groups.