Reminder: Upcoming Quality Webinars

CMS is pleased to invite the public to attend its two upcoming webinars titled Measuring Quality to Improve Quality: Strengths and Challenges of Clinical Quality Measurement and Patient-Centered Quality Measurement: What It Is and How to Get Involved. The webinars will provide engaging and informative overviews about quality measures, with an emphasis on how these measures are impacting health care and how the public can get involved in the development of quality measures. Each of the webinars will be offered twice this summer:

Measuring Quality to Improve Quality: Strengths and Challenges of Clinical Quality Measurement
- Tuesday, June 25 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST (Register here)
- Thursday, June 27 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST (Register here) (Note: this will be the same presentation as 6/25)
Patient-Centered Quality Measurement: What It Is and How to Get Involved
- Wednesday, July 24 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST (Register here)
- Thursday, July 25 at 3:00-4:00 pm EST (Register here) (Note: this will be the same presentation as 7/24)

Please register in advance if you can attend, as space will be limited. And be sure to come prepared with questions to ask our presenters!

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Guidehouse to conduct data validation and audits of a select number of Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians. Data validation and audits are processes that will help ensure MIPS is operating with accurate and useful data. MIPS eligible clinicians, groups and virtual groups are required by regulation to comply with data sharing requests, providing all data as requested by CMS.

If you are selected for data validation and/or audit, you will receive a request for information from Guidehouse. It will be sent via email or by certified mail. Please be on the lookout for this notification. You will have 45 calendar days from the date of the notice to provide the requested information.

Please note, if you do not provide the requested information CMS may take further action, to include the possibility that you will be selected for future audits. To help avoid this, we are in the process of developing resources to support clinicians selected to participate.

We currently have the following data validation and audit resources available on the Quality Payment Program Resource Library:

2017 MIPS Data Validation Criteria - Lists the 2017 criteria used to audit and validate data submitted in each performance category
2018 MIPS Data Validation Criteria - Lists the 2018 criteria used to audit and validate data submitted in each performance category

Be sure to subscribe to the QPP listserv by entering your email at the bottom of the Quality Payment Program website so that you receive notifications about the most up to date MIPS Data Validation and Audit information available.

How do I get Help or More Information?

The Quality Payment Program can be reached at QPP@cms.hhs.gov or 1-866-288-8292 (TTY 1-877-715- 6222), Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM-8:00 PM Eastern Time.