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On March 22, 2020, CMS
announced relief for clinicians, providers, hospitals and facilities
participating in quality reporting programs in response to the 2019 Novel
Coronavirus (COVID-19). This memorandum and factsheet supplements and
provides additional guidance to health care providers with regard to the
announcement. CMS has extended the 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment
System (MIPS) data submission deadline from March 31 by 30 days to April
30, 2020. This and other efforts are to provide relief to clinicians
responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the MIPS automatic
extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy will apply to MIPS eligible
clinicians who do not submit their MIPS data by the April 30, 2020
deadline.
You can find a copy of
the memo here: Memo
You can find a copy of
the fact sheet here: Fact Sheet
Today, CMS is issuing an
electronic toolkit regarding telehealth and telemedicine for Long Term Care
Nursing Home Facilities. Under President Trump’s leadership to respond to
the need to limit the spread of community COVID-19, CMS has broadened
access to Medicare telehealth services so that beneficiaries can receive a
wider range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a
healthcare facility. This document contains electronic links to reliable
sources of information regarding telehealth and telemedicine, including the
significant changes made by CMS over the last week in response to the
National Health Emergency. Most of the information is directed
towards providers who may want to establish a permanent telemedicine
program, but there is information here that will help in the temporary
deployment of a telemedicine program as well. There are specific documents
identified that will be useful in choosing telemedicine vendors, equipment,
and software, initiating a telemedicine program, monitoring patients
remotely, and developing documentation tools. There is also
information that will be useful for providers who intend to care for
patients through electronic virtual services that may be temporarily used
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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