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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the 2021 Medicare Part B Registry Quality Measure specifications and supporting documents. This release provides comprehensive descriptions of the 2021 registry Quality Measures for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Quality Performance Category. In this article, I will highlight the 2021 significant changes for each Quality Measure that can be reported via a registry by physical therapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs) and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as well as list the denominator criteria for each Quality Measure that can be reported via a registry as it applies to PTs, OTs, and

On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule for services paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment Policies as well as Updates to the Quality Payment Program. The latter would include the Merit-Base Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Remember that only physical therapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs) and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) that practice in a private practice (submit claims on a 1500-claim form to the Medicare program) are eligible to participate in MIPS. This would include a therapist owned private practice or a physician owned private