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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Quality Payment Program Resource Center

Quality Payment Program Resource Center

About the QPP Center

The ACS Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Center provides resources to be successful in participating in this Medicare Physician Quality Program, by providing basic information about the program, participation options, and other helpful resources.

Quality Payment Program Data Submission and Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstance Application Deadline Extended

MIPS Performance Data Submission

To submit their MIPS data, physicians should:

Physicians who have had their data reported by a third party should follow the same steps in order to review their submission for accuracy.

EUC Applications

In addition, CMS will only approve EUC applications that cite the cyberattack on Change Healthcare as the basis for requesting reweighting under the MIPS EUC Exception. Any applications submitted for reasons other than the Change Healthcare cyberattack will be denied. As a reminder, any data a surgeon has previously submitted to CMS will override their application for those performance categories.

To submit an EUC application, physicians should:

  • Sign in to the QPP website.
  • Select ‘Exceptions Applications’ on the left-hand navigation.
  • Select ‘Add New Exception.’
  • Select ‘Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception.’
  • Complete the application. A clinician MUST select “Ransom/Malware” as the Event Type and include “Change Healthcare Cyberattack” in the Event Description to receive the exception.

CMS offers additional resources in the QPP Resource Library, including data submission user guides for Traditional MIPS, MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and the Alternative Payment Model Performance Pathway (APP). Physicians can also contact QualityDC@facs.org for additional information.

QPP Information by Year

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 called for major changes in the physician payment system that went into effect in 2017. The QPP continues to advance a policy goal of basing payment on value rather than on volume. For your convenience, we have compiled reporting information for 2021, 2022, and 2023 participation.

2024 Information

The 2024 QPP offers two pathways: the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Advanced Alternative Payment Models.

2022 Information

The 2022 QPP offers two pathways: the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Advanced Alternative Payment Models.

2021 Information

For 2021, surgeons need to score a total of at least 60 points to avoid a payment penalty in 2023.

Questions?

Contact the Division of Advocacy and Health Policy if you have questions about federal and state legislation, regulatory issues, grassroots advocacy, practice management, and more.