Final Reminder: 2024 MIPS EUC Application Reopened; Closing Today
Final Reminder: 2024 MIPS EUC Application Reopened; Closing Today
As announced March 24, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reopened the 2024 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception Application to provide relief to practices impacted by the national intravenous (IV) fluid shortage.
The application reopened Monday, March 31, 2025, at 10 a.m. ET, and will close today,April 14, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET.
CMS will only accept applications citing the national IV fluid shortage as the basis for requesting reweighting under the MIPS EUC Exception. Any applications submitted for reasons outside of the national IV fluid shortage will be denied.
CMS also extended the MIPS data submission deadline until today, April 14, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET.
IMPORTANT! The deadline for certain clinicians, groups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities to elect to participate in MIPS – because they are opt-in eligible due to the low-volume threshold or are partially qualifying APM participants (Partial QPs) – was still March 31, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET.
This announcement includes details about the following information:
Individual MIPS eligible clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and APM Entities participating in MIPS (including Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations) affected by the national IV fluid shortage are able to submit a 2024 MIPS EUC Exception Application between March 31, 2025, 10 a.m. ET and today, April 14, 2025, 8 p.m. ET. They can apply to request reweighting for any or all MIPS performance categories.
For example, you may need to apply if your practice’s administrative and support staff has needed to focus on supply chains to support patients’ care, affecting their capacity to collect and prepare data for reporting.
Individuals, groups, and virtual groups: We won’t reweight any performance category for which we’ve received data.
However, if 3 of the performance categories are reweighted to 0% and only one performance category can be scored (e.g., because the MIPS eligible clinician, group, or virtual group submitted data for that category), then the MIPS eligible clinician, group, or virtual group will earn a final score equal to the performance threshold and the MIPS eligible clinician(s) will receive a neutral payment adjustment.
For example:
A MIPS eligible clinician in a small practice reported Medicare Part B claims quality measures during the performance period, resulting in a quality score. Because we’ve received data, we won’t reweight the quality performance category.
If the other 3 performance categories are approved for reweighting to 0% (and no data was submitted for the improvement activities or Promoting Interoperability categories), the quality performance category would be weighted at 100% of the final score, resulting in a final score of 75 points (the performance threshold).
APM Entities: Data submission for an APM Entity won’t override performance category reweighting.
If approved, the MIPS eligible clinicians in the APM Entity will receive a score equal to the performance threshold and a neutral MIPS payment adjustment in the 2026 payment year unless the MIPS eligible clinicians had a higher final score (for the same TIN/NPI combination) from individual or group participation.
MIPS eligible clinicians and their representatives can submit and update their MIPS data until today,April 14, 2024, 8 p.m. ET. We encourage submission of data as early as possible in advance of this extended deadline.
Please note: This extension will delay the mid-June timeline for releasing final scores and opening Targeted Review.
Opt-in Eligible Clinicians and Groups
Opt-in eligible clinicians and groups exceed 1 or 2, but not all 3 of the MIPS low-volume threshold criteria.
Opt-in eligible clinicians and groups who want to report MIPS data had to complete their opt-in election by March 31, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET. (Data must be submitted by today, April 14, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET.)
No action is required for opt-in eligible clinicians and groups who don’t want to report MIPS data.
Partial QPs received at least 40% of Medicare Part B payments or saw at least 25% of Medicare patients through an Advanced APM Entity during the 2024 QP performance period (January 1 - August 31).
Partial QPs who want to report MIPS data and get a MIPS payment adjustment had to complete their Partial QP election by March 31, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET. (Data must be submitted by today, April 14, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET.)
No action is required from Partial QPs who don’t want to participate in MIPS.
