Quality Payment Program Participation: Preliminary Data on 2018

July 19, 2019
Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a blog and released an infographic to share preliminary participation data for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) during 2018. Key findings include:

  • Overall, Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participation rates increased between 2017 and 2018 from 95% to 98%
  • Small practice participation increased from 81% in 2017 to almost 90% in 2018
  • 97.63% of the 916,058 total tax identification numbers/national provider identifiers were above the performance threshold, 0.42 percent were at the performance threshold, and 1.95 percent were below the performance threshold
  • The number of Qualifying Advanced Payment Model Participants nearly doubled, from 99,076 clinicians in 2017 to 183,306 in 2018

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