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Every APMA Member
Can Avoid a Penalty
with the APMA Registry
Your reporting for 2017 dictates your Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) payout or penalty in 2019.
CMS has set performance thresholds for MIPS: a minimum of three points to avoid the 4-percent Medicare Part B penalty, and 70 points for exceptional performance, which would likely earn an incentive. Every APMA member can use
the APMA Registry to avoid a penalty. Whether your EHR is integrated with the registry or not (or whether you use an
EHR or not), the registry will allow you to meet the minimum three points required to avoid the penalty in 2019.
Four Steps to Save 4 Percent
1
Sign up to participate in the APMA Registry. Visit www.apma.org/registry to fill out the access request form.
You will need your APMA member number, your National Provider Identifier number, and your tax ID number.
2
Complete a business associate and data use agreement. APMA staff will process your registration and alert you
when it is complete.
3
Identify one high-weight or two medium-weight Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA) on which to
report, OR Document Advancing Care Information (ACI) Measures.
4
Beginning in Q1 2018, use the APMA Registry to submit your attestations for CPIA or ACI activities (available
in Q1 2018).
Original graphic by Shutterstock/mamanamsai.
For more information about the APMA Registry, read IT Consultant on page 60 in this issue, or visit
www.apma.org/registry. n
More resources for all MIPS participating providers:
* Watch a short (fewer than 10 minutes) video from APMA Executive Director and CEO James R. Christina, DPM,
describing how to avoid a MIPS penalty. Visit www.apma.org/MACRA and click on the link at the top of the page.
* View free recorded webinars at www.apma.org/MACRAwebinars.
* Download valuable measurement specs from www.apma.org/MACRA (scroll to "MIPS Performance Categories").
* Visit the CMS website at https://qpp.cms.gov/MIPS/overview.
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http://www.apma.org/registry
http://www.apma.org/registry
http://www.apma.org/MACRA
http://www.apma.org/MACRAwebinars
http://www.apma.org/MACRA
https://qpp.cms.gov/MIPS/overview
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