Title 42

SECTION 414.1360

414.1360 Data submission criteria for the improvement activities performance category.

§ 414.1360 Data submission criteria for the improvement activities performance category.

(a) For purposes of the transition year of MIPS and future years, MIPS eligible clinicians or groups must submit data on MIPS improvement activities in one of the following manners:

(1) Via direct, login and upload, and login and attest. For the applicable performance period, submit a yes response for each improvement activity that is performed for at least a continuous 90-day period during the applicable performance period.

(i) Submit a yes response for activities within the improvement activities inventory.

(ii) [Reserved]

(2) Groups and virtual groups. Beginning with the 2020 performance year, each improvement activity for which groups and virtual groups submit a yes response in accordance with paragraph (a)(1) of this section must be performed by at least 50 percent of the NPIs billing under the group's TIN or virtual group's TINs, as applicable, and the NPIs must perform the same activity during any continuous 90-day period within the same performance year.

(b) [Reserved]

[81 FR 77537, Nov. 4, 2016, as amended at 82 FR 53953, Nov. 16, 2017; 83 FR 60080, Nov. 23, 2018; 84 FR 63196, Nov. 15, 2019]

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