QPP Improvement Activities

For 2017, the Quality Payment Program (QPP) will calculate 2017 MIPS Performance accordingly:

• Quality: 60%
• Advancing Care Information (formerly Health IT Meaningful Use): 25%
• Improvement Activities: 15%

Most clinicians will attest that they have completed up to 4 improvement activities for a minimum of 90 days. There are over 90 different improvement activities listed on the QPP website. 14 of those are "high" weighted, 78 are "medium," and one has no weighting (this one is the Patient Centered Medical Home attestation).

Let's take a look at some of the "high" weighted improvement activities:

Engagement of new Medicaid patients and follow-up
Subcategory: Achieving Health Equity

Participation in CAHPS or other supplemental questionnaire
Subcategory: Patient Safety And Practice Assessment

Provide 24/7 access to eligible clinicians or groups who have real-time access to patient's medical record
Subcategory: Expanded Practice Access

Use of QCDR for feedback reports that incorporate population health
Subcategory: Population Management

Oncology groups participating in the Oncology Care Model (OCM) are scored based on the requirements of participating in the APM.