MIPS Improvement Activities – Selection, Documentation and Reporting

Why Should You Attend:

CMS has approved 112 Improvement Activities for 2018 and plans to add additional activities in future years. Improvement activities are relatively straightforward, and CMS anticipates that the vast majority of practices will earn the full 15 percentage points in 2018. However, there are several considerations tied to selecting improvement activities tied to efficiency, meeting requirements, and potential future audits.

Attend this webinar to know what documentation and reporting required for Improvement Activities. Knowledge of certain aspects of Improvement Activity requirements may allow practices to achieve higher scores at greater levels of efficiency.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

Attendees will learn:

• The basic features of Improvement Activities
• The requirements for earning 100% of the points available in the Improvement Activity category of MIPS, allowing the practice to earn 15 total MIPS points
• Whether Improvement Activities that were implemented in the past can meet the requirements for 2018 reporting
• The reporting requirements and level of participation for individual clinicians vs. groups
• How improvement activities can be reported
• Improvement Activity documentation requirements
• Situations where Improvement Activity points are automatically granted to MIPS clinicians.

Who Will Benefit:

• Medicare eligible physicians and other clinicians
• Health Information Management (HIM) professionals
• Practice Administrators
• Healthcare CMIOs
• Healthcare COOs
• Clinical staff members
• Healthcare compliance professionals
• Healthcare analytics professionals
• Quality performance professionals

Michael Stearns
CEO, Apollo HIT, LLC

Michael Marron-Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC is a physician informaticist, certified professional coder (CPC), and CEO of Apollo HIT, LLC. Dr. Marron-Stearns has 15 years of direct patient care experience. He served as an assistant professor and neurology residency program coordinator. For the past 21 years he has worked as a informaticist, health information technology and compliance professional. He spent 12 of these years providing leadership and direction to electronic health record vendors.

Dr. Marron-Stearns is an accomplished speaker and author on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) that includes the MIPS and Advanced Alternative Payment Models. Dr. Marron-Stearns founded Apollo HIT, LLC in 2014. His company provides a range of consulting services to healthcare providers and health information technology organizations.

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