A total of 160 comments have been submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in support of their proposal to reward physicians for their participation in certain continuing medical education (CME) activities. Of the roughly 1,300 comments submitted on the proposed rule, 160 individuals and organizations sent comments that included support for the inclusion of quality improvement/practice improvement (QI-PI) CME in the final rule.
Under the proposal, quality improvement continuing medical education (CME) would be recognized as a Clinical Practice Improvement Activity (CPIA) under the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) — a physician reimbursement system created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). As detailed in the proposed rule (pg. 1042), CMS recommends that “completion of an accredited performance improving medical education program” be included under the list of CPIAs under MIPS — one of the key policy changes proposed for the Quality Payment Program Year 2.
Here are links to the organization comments:
Here are links to the organization comments:
- Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
- Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions
- American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA)
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Academy of Home Care Medicine
- American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
- American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
- American Academy of PAs
- American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) & Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- American College of Osteopathic Surgeons
- American College of Physicians (ACP)
- American College of Physicians (ACP)
- American College of Rheumatology
- American Medical Association (see below)
- American Osteopathic Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Society for Clinical Pathology
- American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
- American Society of Nephrology
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- California Medical Association
- CME Coalition
- Council of Medical Specialty Societies
- Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE)
- Heart Rhythm Society
- Genentech
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Pennsylvania Medical Society
- Physicians Advocacy Institute
- Rockpointe
- Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
- The PCPI Foundation
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