Crosswalk: Appendix F1

Measures Under Consideration (MUC) Peer Reviewed Journal
Article Template

CY 2022 Final versus CY 2023 Final

Burden impact: The changes to this form do not reflect proposals in the CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule for the Quality Payment Program. There are no impacts to burden as a result of these changes.

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Change #1:

Location: Page 1: 1^st Paragraph, Reference to the list of annual clinical quality measures

Reason for Change:

Updated the name of the list of MIPS Quality Measures to accurately reflect posted measures list on the QPP site

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

These measures will be submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to a journal(s) before including any new measure in the final list of annual clinical quality measures (CQM) under MIPS.

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

These measures will be submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to a journal(s), before including any new measure in the MIPS Quality Measures List under MIPS.

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Change #2:

Location: Page 1: 1^st paragraph, Reference to measure steward and Call for Measures

Reason for Change:

Updated for clarification of the Call for Measures process specific to MIPS

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

The measure steward shall provide the required information for article submission under the MACRA per CMS “Call for Measures” submission process.

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

The measure submitter shall provide the required information for article submission under the MACRA per the CMS Call for MIPS Quality Measures submission process.

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Change #3:

Location: Page 1: 2nd paragraph, Reference to measure steward and Call for Measures

Reason for Change:

Updated for clarification of the Call for Measures process specific to MIPS and the Annual Call for Measures

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

Measure stewards submitting measures to the MIPS Call for Quality Measures must complete the required information by the Call for Measures deadline

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

Stakeholders submitting measures to the MIPS Call for Quality Measures must complete the required information by the Annual Call for Measures deadline.

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Change #4:

Location: Page 1: 2nd paragraph, Reference to MERIT tool

Reason for Change:

Updated language for clarity

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

The information in the MERIT tool must be consistent with the information below. This includes, but is not limited to:

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

The information in MERIT must be consistent with the information below, which includes the following, but is not limited to:

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Change #5:

Location: Page 1: Measure specific headings

Reason for Change:

Updated formatting and addition of instruction in measure description for clarity

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

Description:

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

Description: [Text]

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Change #6:

Location: Page 1: Reliability/Validity; 1^st paragraph, additional testing information

Reason for Change:

Updated to include testing requirements for MIPS, updated formatting to bullets

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

What testing has been performed at the level of implementation? Please provide testing results including the N value, Bonnie test case results, correlation coefficient and any other pertinent information or values to be considered.

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

What testing has been performed at the level of implementation? (MIPS requires measure testing at the individual clinician level (and may also need to be tested at the group level) for MIPS Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) and Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) collection types. Administrative claims measures tested at the group level require a reliability threshold to be implemented at the group level.)

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Change #7:

Location: Page 2: Endorsement

Reason for Change:

Updated language for clarity

CY 2022 Final Rule text:

Provide NQF endorsement status (and ID) and/or other endorsing body (If measure is only endorsed for paper records, please note endorsement for only the data source being submitted)

CY 2023 Final Rule text:

Provide the National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsement status (and NQF measure Identifier) and/or other endorsing body (if the measure is only endorsed for paper records, please note endorsement for only the data source being submitted).

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