The cap applies to prospective HCC risk score growth for any Medicare enrollment type only if the ACO's aggregate growth in prospective HCC risk scores between BY3 and the performance year across all of the Medicare enrollment type exceeds this cap
The status for OMB's approval of the changes can be monitored at:
For the MIPS participation track, MIPS eligible clinicians (defined in 414.1305) [701] are subject to a MIPS payment adjustment (positive, negative, or neutral) based on their performance in four performance categories: cost, quality, improvement activities, and Promoting Interoperability
During the 2023 CAHPS ( for MIPS Web Mode Field Test, [743] adding the web-based survey mode to the current mail-phone protocol of CAHPS for MIPS survey administration resulted in an increased response rate
For example, tobacco tax increases and reduced affordability of cigarettes and tobacco may have had an increased effect in the context of economic uncertainty and hardship caused by the pandemic