Reminder: 2019 Call for MIPS Promoting Interoperability Measures and Improvement Activities is Open

CMS reminds you to submit Promoting Interoperability measures and Improvement Activities for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The MIPS Annual Call for Measures and Activities process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent clinicians, researchers, consumer groups and others to identify and submit measures and activities. We are currently accepting submissions for:  

• EHR measures for the Promoting Interoperability performance category
• Activities for the Improvement Activities performance category

CMS is looking for improvement activities that can be considered higher than standard of care. This means that the sets of practices or activities being proposed for consideration exceed defined, commonly accepted guidelines for level of quality or attainment in clinical care or quality improvement guidelines. CMS won’t accept duplicative concepts. This means improvement activities that may represent either identical language, language similar to but not as robust as existing improvement activities or may contain a partial component of existing language or concepts as those already contained in the improvement activity inventory.

How to Submit Measures and Activities

If you’re interested in proposing new measures and activities for MIPS, review the Call for Measures and Activities Overview fact sheet (zip) and fill out and submit the following forms during the specified submission periods:

• Improvement Activities Performance Category (submission period ends July 1, 2019 for 2021 activities)
• Promoting Interoperability Performance Category (submission period ends July 1, 2019 for 2021 measures)

For More Information

Download the Call for Measures and Activities materials (zip) within the Quality Payment Program Resource Library. A webinar recording and presentation on the MIPS Annual Call for Measures and Activities are also available on the QPP Webinar Library.