This post is part of the MACRA Monday series of blog posts where we dive into the details of MACRA.
In years 1 and 2 of MACRA, those that are eligible to participate are going to be very similar to past programs. However, the secretary does have the option in year 3 to look at expanding the program to include other healthcare providers that don’t meet the initial requirements. You can see this illustrated in the graphic below.
There are three exceptions to the above graphic. The first exception is if you’re a first year partipant in Medicare Part B. This gives these doctors time to get up to speed before they’re required to participate in MIPS. They will have to participate in year two. There is also a MIPS exception for low volume providers. If you’re a provider that has Medicare billing charges that are less than or equal to $10,000 and providers care to 100 or fewer Medicare patients in a year, then you are not required to participate in MIPS. The third exception is those providers that are already participating as an advanced APM (see what we wrote about Advanced APM eligibility for more details) are not allowed to participate in MIPS. Here’s a summary of these exceptions:
If all of this Advanced APM and MIPS eligibility is confusing to you, here’s a flow chart which will walk you through the process of knowing whether you’re an advanced APM, whether you must participate in MIPS or whether you’re not subject to MIPS:
Next up, we dive into the details of MIPS and the 4 MIPS categories.
Be sure to check out all of our MACRA Monday blog posts where we dive into the details of the MACRA program.
Great summary -keep the MACRA information coming, please.