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You can use the tool to narrow down the lists of measures for quality, improvement activities and promoting interoperability (formerly known as advancing care information).

The American Medical Association (AMA) and American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) have developed a concept for an opioid treatment advanced alternative payment model (APM) which could - if accepted by CMS as an advanced APM - serve as a MIPS alternative.

After a slight delay the merit-based payment system (MIPS) participation lookup tool -- which tells you whether you have to do MIPS or not -- is up and running for 2018.
If you think you could get your MIPS reporting for 2017 done if only CMS would give you a few more days to do it, good news — they have.
We thought the final list of quality measures for year two of the merit-based incentive payment system was a done deal. That is, until late yesterday, when members of our IT team pointed out two new codes in the April 1 HCPCS update: G9890 (E/M bridge payment) and G9891 (E/M session reporting).

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