The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Value Pathways (MVPs) registration window is open for the 2024 performance year. Individuals, groups, subgroups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities that wish to report an MVP can register until December 2, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET.
NEW FOR 2024: To register, you’ll sign in to the QPP website with your HCQIS Access and Roles Profile (HARP) account. This is different from the 2023 process of completing an Excel form and emailing the QPP Service Center.
You must have a HARP account and QPP Security Official role to complete the MVP Registration.
For more information on HARP accounts, please refer to the Register for a HARP Account document in the QPP Access User Guide (ZIP, 4MB).
For more information on obtaining the QPP Security Official role, review the Connect to an Organization document in the QPP Access User Guide (ZIP, 4MB).
Prepare for MVP Registration
Before you register, you’ll need to have the following items identified:
The MVP you plan to report;
Whether you plan to administer the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) for MIPS Survey, if it’s a quality measure option in your selected MVP;
Whether you want to be evaluated on an outcomes-based administrative claims quality measure, if it’s a quality measure option in your selected MVP;
The population health measure you would like to be evaluated on:
2024 Hospital-Wide All-Cause Unplanned Readmission Measure or
2024 Clinician and Clinician Group Risk-standardized Hospital Admission Rates for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions
The participation option you plan to use: individual, group, subgroup, or APM Entity.
How to Register
Individuals, groups, subgroups and APM Entities will register on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website. You'll need to have the Security Official role in order to register your organization. Please refer to the QPP Access User Guide (ZIP, 4MB) for information about obtaining a Security Official role for your organization. To register:
Sign in to QPP
Click Register or edit an MVP registration from the landing page
Click your MVP reporting option
*Note: If the CAHPS for MIPS Survey is an available measure in your selected MVP and you wish to administer it as 1 of your 4 required measures, you should have completed a separate CAHPS for MIPS Survey registration by July 1, 2024. Visit the QPP website to learn more about CAHPS for MIPS Survey registration.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking nominations for the Physician Cost Measures and Patient Relationship Codes (PCMP) Technical Expert Panel (TEP) that will provide input on the following topics:
Episode-based cost and value measures for use in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS);
Patient relationship categories (PRC) and codes; and
Population-based cost measures for MIPS and the Hospital Value-based Purchasing (Hospital VBP) program.
The nomination period opened on October 28, and interested clinicians are invited to submit nominations between now and November 18, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
The TEP is expected to meet twice per year through 2029. The first meeting for this TEP is a virtual meeting in December 2024.
Clinicians interested in joining a TEP for the first time and previous TEP members should fill out the full web-based nomination form to ensure that we have the most recent information.
