Your frustration with MIPS is most likely based on fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Fear of the consequences of a poor score, financial penalties, lower incentives, reputational damage or all the above. Uncertainty about what needs to be done to improve your score and where your available time, effort, and resources can be best spent. And doubt that anything you do will make a significant difference.
1. Project Your MIPS score
Most practice don’t know their MIPS score during the year, only to find out in the end they missed their target. Don’t be this practice. Collect your MIPS data and do the calculations necessary to have at least an approximate sense of your expected score overall and each category during the year.
2. Identify Problematic Measures
When you are calculating your MIPS score, you may find that you are not scoring as expected on particular measures. It is best to identify these measures as early as possible so that there is adequate time to address the underlying cause. The cause may be related to your workflow in the clinic, how patient visits are documented in your EHR, or may be simply a scoring error in the EHR or registry. Determining the cause can be uncovered by doing spot checks.
3. Prioritize Actions Based on Expected Benefits
MIPS can be overwhelming if you spread yourself too thin. Usually there are specific actions that will give the most benefit. To identify where your time is best spent, you will want to rank corrective actions to measures according to expected benefit considering the time, effort, and resources to address the identified problem. In many cases, the most expedient course will present itself once you compare possible actions and list out the corrective actions in an order that reflects your priorities and costs.
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