Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released national participation and performance data for the Quality Payment Program’s (QPP) 2022 performance year, including data related to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and alternative payment model (APM) participation. Notable findings include:
- More than 386,000 participated as qualifying APM participants in 2022, up from 333,658 in 2021;
- Mean and median MIPS scores were lower than in previous years;
- Fourteen percent of MIPS-eligible clinicians received a penalty in 2024 (based on 2022 performance), 37% received a positive adjustment and 42% received an exceptional performance bonus (note that 2022 was the last year participants could qualify for this bonus); and
- More than 85% of neurosurgeons who were eligible to participate in MIPS received a neutral or positive payment adjustment, while 14% received a penalty.
Additional information about 2022 participation/performance data and 2024 payment adjustments is available in the following resources:
- 2022 QPP Participation and Performance Results At-a-Glance: Provides a snapshot of aggregated data, including a high-level overview of participation, scoring and payment adjustment information.
- 2022 QPP Experience Report: Includes a more in-depth and specialty-focused review of aggregated data on participation, including top measures reported.
- 2022 QPP Public Use File (PUF): Includes raw, clinician-level data on eligibility, measure level scoring, performance category scoring, final scores and payment adjustments.
In addition, click here for resources related to the 2022 PUF and here for earlier PUFs.
