News: CMS introduces online course on Merit-based Incentive Payment System Alternative Payment Models

CMS now offers an e-learning opportunity on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) through the MLN Learning Management System, Revenue Cycle Advisor reported. This course is the fifth in a growing curriculum on the QPP and will offer 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

The program focuses on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System’s (MIPS) Alternative Payment Models (APM) and covers the following:

• Benefits of special APM scoring standards for MIPS APM participants
• Criteria for reporting on performance
• How to recognize who is a participant in a MIPS APM

The weighted scores for MIPS APMs are different from the traditional scoring system for the MIPS performance categories to account for activities already required by the APM. MIPS clinicians participating in MIPS APMs do not need to submit quality and improvement activity performance category data beyond what they are already required to report as part of the APM. 

Anyone interested in enrolling in the CMS course will need to create an MLN Learning Management System account by registering here. Credits for the course expire August 1, 2020.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in Revenue Cycle Advisor. For information about the policies introduced in the QPP proposed rule, click here. To read the American Medical Association’s concerns about the QPP proposed rule, click here.