MIPS APMs

Quality Payment Program Participation Option

Some Alternative Payment Models (APMs) include MIPS-eligible clinicians as participants. Those APMs are called MIPS APMs. They require clinicians to participate in similar reporting standards, measuring the quality and cost of care provided to Medicare patients. The central difference is how the performance categories are scored

Scroll down to view a summary of MIPS APMs and browse all Participation Options for 2019.

Or click a tab below for a general introduction to APMs or to learn about the other Participation Option (Advanced APMs).


MIPS APMs: 2019 Key Facts


Qualifications


Just like standard MIPS, clinicians are eligible for MIPS APMs in 2019 if they 1) bill $90,000 or more in Medicare Part B allowed charges, 2) see more than 200 Part B-enrolled Medicare beneficiaries, AND 3) provide 200 or more covered professional services to Part B patients.

If clinicians are participating in MIPS APMs as a group, at least one of them must be MIPS-elgible. Also, a clinician/group must reach a formal agreement with the CMS in order to participate in one of the MIPS APM models.

Scoring


The central difference between MIPS and MIPS APMs is the scoring; specifically, the weight given to the four performance categories. The CMS’ goal with the altered weights is to allow participating clinicians to focus more on the task of the APM and not have to perform repetitive tasks.

  • Quality – 50%
  • Improvement Activities – 20%
  • Promoting Interoperability – 30%
  • Cost – 0%

* The standard MIPS scoring for 2019 is: Quality: 45%; Improvement Activities: 15%; Promoting Interoperability: 25%; Cost: 15%.

Browse the 2019 MIPS APM Models

For more information on how to join any of the following MIPS APMs, visit the CMS’ Quality Payment Program website.

Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced)

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative is comprised of 4 broadly defined models of care, which link payments for the multiple services beneficiaries receive during an episode of care.

Comprehensive ESRD Care (CEC) Model (LDO arrangement)

The Comprehensive ESRD Care (CEC) Model is designed to identify, test, and evaluate new ways to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

Comprehensive ESRD Care (CEC) Model (non-LDO two-sided risk arrangement)

The Comprehensive ESRD Care (CEC) Model is designed to identify, test, and evaluate new ways to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

Comprehensive ESRD Care (CEC) Model (non-LDO one-sided risk arrangement)

The Comprehensive ESRD Care (CEC) Model is designed to identify, test, and evaluate new ways to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) is a national advanced primary care medical home model that aims to strengthen primary care through regionally-based multi-payer payment reform and care delivery transformation.

Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Track 1+ Model

The Medicare ACO Track 1+ is a time-limited model for Track 1 Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program) ACOs. The Shared Savings Program is a voluntary program that encourages groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to come together as an ACO to provide coordinated, high-quality care to their Medicare patients. Track 1+ Model ACOs assume limited downside risk (less than Track 2 or Track 3).

Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations – Track 1, 2, 3

The Shared Savings Program is a voluntary program that encourages groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to come together as an ACO to provide coordinated, high-quality care to their Medicare patients. ACOs may participate in the Shared Savings Program under Tracks 1, 2, or 3. Each track varies by their financial risk and portion of savings.

Next Generation ACO Model

Building upon experience from the Pioneer ACO Model and the Shared Savings Program, the Next Generation ACO Model offers a new opportunity in accountable care—one that sets predictable financial targets, enables providers and beneficiaries greater opportunities to coordinate care, and aims to attain the highest quality standards of care.

Oncology Care Model (OCM) (one-sided Risk Arrangement)

Under the Oncology Care Model (OCM), physician practices have entered into payment arrangements that include financial and performance accountability for episodes of care surrounding chemotherapy administration to cancer patients

Oncology Care Model (OCM) (two-sided Risk Arrangement)

Under the Oncology Care Model (OCM), physician practices have entered into payment arrangements that include financial and performance accountability for episodes of care surrounding chemotherapy administration to cancer patients

Vermont Medicare ACO Initiative (as part of the Vermont All-Payer ACO Model)

The Vermont All-Payer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers throughout the entire state – Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health care payers – incentivize health care value and quality, with a focus on health outcomes, under the same payment structure for the majority of providers throughout the state’s care delivery system and transform health care for the entire state and its population.

Maryland Primary Care Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the state of Maryland are partnering to test the Maryland Total Cost of Care (TCOC) Model, which sets a per capita limit on Medicare total cost of care in Maryland. The TCOC Model is the first Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) model to hold a state fully at risk for the total cost of care for Medicare beneficiaries. The TCOC Model builds upon the Innovation Center’s current Maryland All-Payer Model, which had set a limit on per capita hospital expenditures in the State.

Independence at Home Demonstration

The Independence at Home Demonstration provides chronically ill patients with a complete range of primary care services in the home setting. This focus on timely and appropriate care is designed to improve overall quality of care and quality of life for patients served, while lowering health care costs by forestalling the need for care in institutional settings.

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