The Deadline to Submit Quality Measures for the Annual Call for MIPS Quality Measures is Today

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reminds you that today is the last day to submit Quality measures for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

The MIPS Annual Call for Quality Measures process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent eligible clinicians, researchers, consumer groups and others to identify and submit measure recommendations in the following domains:

Patient safety
Person and caregiver-centered experience and outcomes
Communication and care coordination
Effective clinical care
Community/population health
Efficiency and cost reduction

How to Submit Measures

If you’re interested in proposing new Quality measures for MIPS, you can do so through the ONC-JIRA system. Visit the pre-rulemaking website on CMS.gov to learn more about JIRA and how to submit measures for consideration.

Measures submitted during the Call for Measures period must:

Be fully developed measures (testing data must accompany submission)
Fulfill a clinical performance gap and is supported by a scientific evidence
Be reportable via Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs), Medicare Part B claims or as an eCQM (electronic clinical quality measure)
Valid and reliable at the individual clinician level
Be ready for implementation at the time of submission
Not the same as existing quality measure in MIPS

Submission must also include a completed Peer Reviewed Journal Article Form, which is available in the 2019 Call for Quality Measures zip file. JIRA will accept proposed Quality measure submissions through June 3, 2019.

Measure Consideration

Measures that are accepted as part of the Call for Quality Measures will be added to the 2019 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List. The finalized MUC List will be available by December 1, 2019 and reviewed at the National Quality Forum’s Annual Measure Application Partnership meeting in December. CMS will then decide which measures will be considered for future rulemaking.

A list of proposed quality measures for consideration in the MIPS program for 2020 will be publicly available for comment by July 1, 2019 and a final annual list of 2020 measures for MIPS eligible clinicians will be published in the Federal Register by November 1 of this year.

For More Information

View the 2019 Call for Quality Measures and Activities zip file on the QPP Resource Library. A webinar recording on the MIPS Annual Call for Quality Measures is also available on the QPP Webinar Library.

Upcoming 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)