New CMS Rule to Apply MIPS Exemption for the 2020 Performance Period CMS announced flexibilities to provide relief to physicians responding to the (COVID-19) pandemic. For the 2020 performance period, CMS will be applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to all MIPS-eligible clinicians. They are also reopening the MIPS EUC application for individual MIPS-eligible clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model entities through 8 p.m. ET on March 31, 2021. Please note that applications received between now and March 31, 2021, won’t override previously submitted data for individuals, groups, and virtual groups. Individual clinicians, groups, and virtual groups that have not submitted data • Individual MIPS-eligible clinicians: You do not need
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