In the first quarter of each year, anesthesiologists and their groups encounter a number of burdens for federal quality reporting. These burdens include choosing quality measures, updating measure specifications, and modifying workflows to accommodate new quality measure data capture. For 2022, ASA was able to work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to limit the amount of change within the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) while also carving out less burdensome reporting options for anesthesiologists and their groups in the future.
Now in its sixth year, the Quality Payment Program (QPP) has reached a level of stability that includes a consistent number of measures and improvement activities to report from year to year. Since 2019, participation requirements have changed slightly, and much of the program remains the same. Physicians and their groups can check the QPP website to understand their reporting requirements, including their designations as non-patient...
