Most participating clinicians were successful, although the positive payment adjustments will be small. The first year of the program was designed to ease clinicians into the program, and CMS plans to gradually increase performance thresholds for "an evolving distribution of payment adjustments." "Admittedly, the MIPS positive payment adjustments are modest," CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement about the results. "It is important to remember that the funds available for positive payment adjustments are limited by the budget neutrality requirements in MIPS, as established by law under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015."
Highlights of the 2017 QPP Performance Year
|
% Participated |
Payment Adjustment(s) |
Total MIPS Score(s) |
|
71% |
Positive payment adjustment plus exceptional performance adjustment |
70-100 points |
|
22% |
Positive payment adjustment only |
3.01 – 69.99 points |
|
2% |
Neutral adjustment (no increase or decrease) |
3 points |
|
5% |
Negative payment adjustment |
0 points |
Scoring Highlights
|
Participant Type |
Median Score (average) |
Mean Score (middle score) |
|
MIPS |
83.04 points |
65.71 points |
|
APMs |
91.67 points |
87.64 points |
Small Practices
(< 15 clinicians) |
37.67 points |
43.46 points |
Large Practices
(> 16 clinicians) |
90.29 points |
74.37 points |
Additional Result Information
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The maximum positive payment adjustment was 1.88 percent and the maximum negative payment adjustment was minus 4 percent.
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More than 1 million clinicians participated in the QPP.
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More than 99,000 clinicians were qualifying APM
For a complete breakdown of the 2017 performance data, please see the
2017 Quality Payment Program Performance Year Data Infographic.