In the Quality Payment Program Year 2, here?s how we?ve adopted 2018 policies to further reduce your burden and give you more ways to participate successfully. We are keeping many of our transition year policies and making some minor changes including:
? Raising the performance threshold to 15 points in Year 2 (from 3 points in the transition year).
? Allowing the use of 2014 Edition and/or 2015 Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) in Year 2, and giving you a bonus for using only 2015 CEHRT.
? Giving up to 5 bonus points on your final score for treatment of complex patients.
? Automatically weighting the Quality, Advancing Care Information, and Improvement Activities performance categories at 0% of the final score for clinicians impacted by hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria and other natural disasters.
? Adding 5 bonus points to the final scores of small practices
More detail https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Qualit...ary/QPP-Year-2-Final-Rule-Fact-Sheet.pdf [font:Georgia][/font]
Betty Wimbley Seabrook, BSCS,MPM
HIT Quality Specialist
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