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- Pathologists Quality Registry Earned 2020 CMS Approval To Optimize Medicare Payment
The CMS approved the Pathologists Quality Registry as a qualified clinical data registry for the fourth consecutive year. The CAP’s registry offers pathology practices a robust tool for complying with requirements under Medicare’s Quality Payment Program and Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Moreover, the CAP’s registry features quality measures and expert guidance, so pathologists get paid without further penalty by the Medicare program.
Not only does the CAP’s registry feature pathology-specific quality measures and expert guidance, but it also has the demonstrated ability to integrate with a practices’ laboratory information system or billing system for automated and simplified data collection.
As the CMS moves away from claims-based reporting for MIPS, it no longer allows practices of 16 or more pathologists to report quality measures on claims via a billing company. The CAP’s registry supports larger practices for their MIPS reporting and helps subspecialties, who may find it difficult to identify enough relevant quality measures for MIPS reporting, to maximize Medicare incentive payments. The CAP’s registry also supports smaller practices by providing multiple ways to submit quality data and by helping them demonstrate that some measures do not apply to their practice. By submitting data for the 2020 reporting period, MIPS eligible pathologists can avoid a 9% negative payment adjustment and potentially be eligible for a positive payment adjustment in Medicare Part B reimbursement in 2022.