On January 30, CMS released its 2025 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality measure benchmark files. CMS assesses clinician performance against these benchmarks to determine how many points they earn on a quality measure. Whenever possible, CMS uses historical data to establish quality measure benchmarks. Historical benchmarks for the 2025 performance period are based on MIPS data submitted during the 2023 performance period. If CMS cannot calculate an historical benchmark, it will attempt to create a performance year benchmark based on 2025 performance period data. However, these benchmarks will not be available until after the close of the 2025 performance year.
The 2025 benchmark files, as well as a 2025 Quality Benchmarks User Guide and Scoring Examples, are available for download here.
