The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that physician groups may now log into the CMS QPP website to check their 2018 eligibility for Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).  

After groups log in, they will be able to click into a details screen to see the eligibility status of every clinician in the group (based on their National Provider Identifier or NPI) to find out whether they need to participate during the 2018 performance year for MIPS.  

CMS will not be sending out letters to advise physicians of their eligibility status this year, so checking on the QPP participation status lookup tool is the only way to determine or verify eligibility status. Eligibility rules in 2018 are different than in 2017, so a physician’s status this year may be different than last year’s. Also, as indicated in the lookup tool, exempt individual clinicians will still need to report whether their group is eligible and chooses to report as a group. 

The look-up tool can be found online.