In this example, the MIPS eligible clinician's score for the cost performance category would be 0.602 (6.02/10 = 0.602), equal to the total number of achievement points earned by the MIPS eligible clinician divided by the total number of available achievement points under 414.1380(b)(2)(iii)(A)
Under the goals of the CMS National Quality Strategy to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for everyone, CMS is implementing a building-block approach and aligning the measures used to establish the Shared Savings Program quality performance standard with the Universal Foundation of quality measures and streamlining quality measures across CMS quality programs for measuring primary care clinician performance in the adult and pediatric populations
Second, we propose to further divide the FQHC Practitioner Compensation Costs for these occupations into wages and salaries, employee benefits, and contract labor costs based on the ratios of practitioner wages and salaries, practitioner employee benefits, and practitioner contract labor costs to the sum of these three groups of costs
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