(a) For a MIPS payment year, CMS uses the following quality measures, as applicable, to assess performance in the quality performance category:
(1) Measures included in the MIPS final list of quality measures established by CMS through rulemaking;
(2) QCDR measures approved by CMS under § 414.1400;
(3) Facility-based measures described in § 414.1380; and
(4) MIPS APM measures described in § 414.1370.
(b) Unless a different scoring weight is assigned by CMS, performance in the quality performance category comprises:
(1) 60 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for MIPS payment year 2019.
(2) 50 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for MIPS payment year 2020.
(3) 45 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for MIPS payment years 2021 and 2022.
(4) 40 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for the MIPS payment year 2023.
(5) 30 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for the MIPS payment year 2024 and future years.
[83 FR 60078, Nov. 23, 2018, as amended at 84 FR 63195, Nov. 15, 2019; 85 FR 85031, Dec. 28, 2020]