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Simplifying MIPS: Your Guide to 2025 Improvement Activities

Simplifying MIPS: Your Guide to 2025 Improvement Activities

As clinicians begin planning for the 2025 MIPS performance year, the Improvement Activities (IA) performance category remains a key opportunity to maximize your MIPS score with relatively low effort. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized some notable updates to the IA category this year, including a smaller number of required attestations and simplified scoring. This post outlines the key updates for 2025 and shares a practical list of Improvement Activities that are both broadly relevant and commonly used across specialties, making them simple for most practices to implement.

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Inside the 2023 QPP Results: Key Insights and What They Mean for Your Practice

Inside the 2023 QPP Results: Key Insights and What They Mean for Your Practice

CMS just released its 2023 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Results At a Glance and there’s a lot to unpack, especially for clinicians navigating MIPS, MVPs, and APMs. Whether you’re a solo provider, part of a group, or operating under an APM entity, this report offers important insights that could impact your 2025 Medicare payments. Let’s break down the key takeaways and how MDinteractive can help you turn this knowledge into action.

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2025 MIPS Reporting: A Step-by-Step Guide for Success

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) continues to evolve, bringing new challenges and opportunities for clinicians aiming to optimize their performance and meet the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting requirements. As in past years, success with MIPS in 2025 will require a proactive strategy, careful planning, and timely data collection throughout the year. In this article, we’ve outlined a step-by-step checklist to help your practice stay organized, reduce reporting burdens, and achieve success with 2025 MIPS.

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2025 MIPS Reporting – Key Dates and Deadlines to Remember

Navigating the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requires staying informed about critical dates and deadlines. Timely action throughout the year is essential to maximize your performance and maintain compliance with MIPS requirements. Below is a comprehensive timeline to help your practice remain on track for the 2025 performance year.

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Demystifying eCQM and CQM Reporting for ACOs: MDinteractive’s Expertise in Action

As CMS transitions ACOs to all-payer, all-patient CQM/eCQM reporting under the APP, the complexity of quality reporting is increasing. MDinteractive supports over two dozen ACOs—ranging from 37 to over 7,000 clinicians—with scalable tools and expert guidance. Our platform simplifies data aggregation across EHRs, ensures compliance, and provides real-time performance insights to help ACOs meet evolving regulatory requirements with confidence.

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Final 2024 MIPS Eligibility Status Now Available - Do You Have to Report?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the QPP Participation Status Tool for the 2024 performance year. Clinicians can now verify their final 2024 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS) by entering their individual National Provider Identifier (NPI) into the tool or checking their MDinteractive account dashboard. Clinicians can also check their eligibility in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) and preliminary MIPS status for 2025. This blog will guide clinicians through understanding MIPS eligibility and determining their reporting requirements.

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MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) - The Future of MIPS

The MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) is a new reporting structure available for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).  The MVP framework is intended to ease the reporting burden on clinicians and groups by aligning measures and activities across the Quality, Cost, and Improvement Activities categories of MIPS that are more relevant to a clinician’s scope of practice. This article answers key questions about MVPs and how MIPS reporting is expected to change in the years ahead.  

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CMS Releases 2025 Quality Payment Program Final Rule: What It Means for MIPS Reporting

On November 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule for the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The rule outlines the CMS policies for eligible clinicians and groups to participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), and other aspects of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for the 2025 performance year. This blog summarizes the major changes and examines how they will impact MIPS reporting in 2025 and beyond.

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