Source: American Academy of Family Physicians
Following persistent advocacy from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the agency will automatically apply the MIPS extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to all MIPS-eligible clinicians for the 2020 performance period who have not submitted performance data.
This means CMS will automatically give eligible clinicians a neutral payment adjustment in 2022 for the 2020 performance year. CMS is also reopening the EUC application for those MIPS groups and APM participants who missed the previous deadline; the new deadline is Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Given the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the AAFP repeatedly pressed CMS to provide this relief to physicians participating in MIPS, and is pleased the agency acted on AAFP’s recommendation.