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In response to the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has reopened applications for Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) exceptions for submission of 2023 MIPS data. The application will be open until the end of the extended data submission period: April 15, 2024 at 8 pm ET. EUC applications will be accepted at the QPP website but only for disruptions related to the Change Healthcare cyberattack. Applications for other reasons will not be accepted. An accepted EUC application will not override data that has already been submitted to CMS and CMS will not reweight any MIPS performance category for which data has already been submitted. In addition, on March 5, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said they would help providers and hospitals negatively impacted by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. In a statement, the HHS and CMS said they would provide flexibilities to affected parties. Read more. For more information, visit CMS’ announcement of EUC reopening or email the QPP Help Desk at qpp@cms.hhs.gov.
In response to the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has reopened applications for Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) exceptions for submission of 2023 MIPS data. The application will be open until the end of the extended data submission period: April 15, 2024 at 8 pm ET.
EUC applications will be accepted at the QPP website but only for disruptions related to the Change Healthcare cyberattack. Applications for other reasons will not be accepted.
An accepted EUC application will not override data that has already been submitted to CMS and CMS will not reweight any MIPS performance category for which data has already been submitted.
In addition, on March 5, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said they would help providers and hospitals negatively impacted by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. In a statement, the HHS and CMS said they would provide flexibilities to affected parties. Read more.
For more information, visit CMS’ announcement of EUC reopening or email the QPP Help Desk at qpp@cms.hhs.gov.