NOTICE: 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Improvement Activities Validation Criteria Call for Technical Expert Panel (TEP)

This is a notice regarding a current call for nominations for the 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Improvement Activities Validation Criteria Technical Expert Panel (TEP).

As part of its improvement activity development process, the Practice Improvement and Measures Management Support (PIMMS) contract team convenes groups of stakeholders and experts who contribute direction and thoughtful input to the development and maintenance of improvement activities. Comagine Health is a subcontractor on this project and is working to convene a TEP around the validation criteria for the Improvement Activities included in Year 4 (2020) of the Quality Payment Program under the MIPS Improvement Activities performance category.

We are seeking a TEP of approximately 8-10 clinicians and individuals with the following perspectives and areas of expertise:

Subject matter/clinical expertise with Improvement Activities
Consumer/patient/family (non-medical caregiver) perspective
Performance measurement
Quality improvement

The nomination period closes at 5:00 pm PST on November 29, 2019.

For more information, or to download the TEP Nomination Form, review the full posting on the Technical Expert Panels page at: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/MMS/TEP-Currently-Accepting-Nominations.html.

For questions or assistance, please email ImprovementActivityTEP@comagine.org.

Now Available: 2019 Change Review Process (CRP)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces the availability of the 2019 Change Review Process (CRP) for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). The CRP provides eCQM users the opportunity to review and comment on draft changes to the eCQM specifications and supporting resources under consideration by the measure steward. The goal of the CRP is for eCQM implementers to comment on the potential impact of draft changes to eCQMs so CMS and measure stewards can make improvements to meet CMS’s intent of minimizing provider and vendor burden in the collection, capture, calculation, and reporting of eCQMs.

This latest installment of the CRP for eligible professional/eligible clinician and eligible hospital/critical access hospital issues will be conducted using the web-based public comment tools on the ONC Project Tracking System eCQM Issue Tracker during fall 2019. Note that an ONC Project Tracking System account is required to ask a question or comment. New users can create an account via the ONC Project Tracking System website.

CRP updates regarding issues available for public comment will be posted on the ONC Project Tracking System eCQM Issue Tracker summary page. To subscribe to weekly CRP digest emails containing updates on CRP activities, please email CRP@mathematica-mpr.com.

For More Information

To find out more about eCQMs, visit the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center. To report questions and comments regarding eCQMs, visit the eCQM Issue Tracker. To submit technical questions and issues related to the development and implementation of the Clinical Quality Language (CQL) standard, visit the CQL Issue Tracker.