The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has suspended 8 improvement activities for the 2025 MIPS Performance Year. This means clinicians will need to choose other improvement activities to complete. The 8 Improvement Activities that have been suspended are:

Please join us as Gawenda Seminars & Consulting, Inc. presents “2020 MIPS for Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy Services” webinar conference on Tuesday, December 16, 2021 from 1:00pm – 3:30pm EST. This 2.5-hour webinar will assist physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists in private practices, office managers of private practices, administrators and owners of private practices, and billers and billing companies of private practices in their preparation to report MIPS in calendar year 2020.

Question How does CMS calculates the penalty for those choosing not to participate/report? Answer Question Regarding the Improvement Activities, how can we determine which Improvement Activities are considered high-weighted and which are considered medium-weighted? Answer Question How do we go about opting in and when is the deadline? Answer Question If we have 11 therapists and 7 physicians but all therapy billing is incident to the physician, are we classified as a small practice since we only have 7 physicians? Answer Question If we are excluded from MIPS, do not want to opt-in to MIPS and we submit via claims, is