A Guide to MIPS 2019 Reporting for Physical Therapists

Physical therapists are included as one of the groups of healthcare practitioners eligible for MIPS reporting in 2019. It was time their duties were rewarded with an open heart and a clear head. Physical therapy is a serious branch of medicine that, now, comes in the quality circle of the government where physical therapists (PTs) can receive incentives based on their performances. Moreover, MIPS measures relevant to their line of work highlight the broader spectrum of the US healthcare system.

Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), as some of the PTs must already know, is where the disadvantaged gets rewarded equally as one with advantages. By advantages, I mean those clinicians who have to face geographical constraints or practices working in the countryside where there are fewer facilities as compared to ones in the city.

So, a system that speaks of justice is a system that works for people everywhere in the world.

MIPS is a combination of programs such as the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Meaningful Use (MU) program and the Value-Based Modifier (VBM). Promoting interoperability (PI) category correlates with the MIPS meaningful use.

The four categories in which the performance of clinicians and clinician groups are measured are –

• Quality,
• Promoting Interoperability (PA),
• Improvement Activities (IA),
• And, Cost

Generally, PTs will only be scored in two categories in 2019 – Quality and Improvement Activities. The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) participates actively in every provision of the Quality Payment Program (QPP).

MIPS 2019 Reporting for Physical Therapy Made Easy by P3Care

With the pre-designed MIPS 2019 reporting packages in the form of MIPS Essentials, MIPS Budget Neutral and Benchmark MIPS, P3 Healthcare Solutions is tailor-made for it. Doctors falling across various specialties, now, adopt one of these packages to report data. Their MIPS final scores in the 80s and 90s are a clear manifestation of the efficiency of P3 Healthcare Solutions.

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Being a MIPS Qualified Registry gives us an edge to report with consistency and data completeness. The latter qualifies as one of the factors judging the quality of data by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

The Deadline

Another important factor that keeps us on the edge of our seats is deadlines. In this case, Physical Therapists (PTs) can report MIPS measures until December 21 as far as improvement activities are concerned. However, the submission of Quality occurs all over the year, P3 Healthcare Solutions, Ontario, CA has done it in the past and continues to report MIPS Quality measures for eligible clinicians year after year.

Submission deadlines vary according to the submission types. For those who undergo MIPS claims-based reporting in 2019, the claims must get processed “no later than 60 days after the performance year ends”. Groups using the CMS web interface option have to submit within 8 weeks after the performance year. The time window for this 8-week reporting opens from January 2 to March 31.

As a general rule, participants must submit measures before March 31 of the year after the performance year.

MIPS Consulting Services with Results

Physical Therapists (PTs), Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are three crucial branches of health care. All of them can make use of P3Care to report MIPS performance categories, score high, and get a chance at incentives. That’s right. Leverage our services to convincingly compete in the Quality Payment Program 2019.

Improvement Activities (IA) category measures their performance in terms of practice improvement over an elaborate period. Ideally speaking, a MIPS Qualified Registry is suitable for reporting IA for

PTs and OTs as they can work on measures such as enhancing care coordination, expanding patient access to care, and improving patient-doctor decision-making. All of this to land the best score out of a total of 40 points.

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