Taking Advantage of Small-Practice Accommodations

CMS recognizes that small practices (15 or fewer clinicians) will have a harder time meeting MIPS and Quality Payment Program requirements than larger practices. To help, the Quality Payment Program has implemented a number of special scoring scenarios just for small practices:

• Earn double points for each improvement activity automatically.
• Earn 6 bonus points in the quality category for submitting at least one measure.
• Earn 3 points (instead of zero) for quality measures that don’t meet data completeness or case minimum requirements, or that can’t be reliably scored against a benchmark.
• Automatic reweighting of the promoting interoperability category to 0%. The performance category weight will be redistributed to other performance categories unless you choose to submit promoting interoperability data.
• Qualify for a different redistribution policy when the promoting interoperability performance category is reweighted.