MVP: Patient Safety and Support of Positive Experiences with Anesthesia
Most applicable medical specialty: Anesthesiology
The Patient Safety and Support of Positive Experiences with Anesthesia MVP focuses on increasing quality of anesthesia care, improving postoperative outcomes, promoting patient safety, and enhancing satisfaction for patients receiving anesthesia. The measures are used for a variety of surgical procedures that anesthesiologists deliver care for, and are broadly applicable to anesthesiologists practicing within ambulatory, outpatient, and inpatient hospital settings.
Quality
To fulfill quality requirements:
- You must select 4 quality measures from the list below
- At least 1 measure must be an outcome measure
- If no outcome measures are available, you may report a high priority measure.
- You must collect data for each measure for the 12-month performance period of the associated performance year (e.g., January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024).
TIP: Make sure that you select measures that are appropriate to your patient population. Measures that don’t meet case minimum or data completeness criteria will earn zero points.
ID | Title | Title |
404 | Anesthesiology Smoking Abstinence | Details |
424 | Perioperative Temperature Management | Details |
430 | Prevention of Post-Operative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV) – Combination Therapy | Details |
463 | Prevention of Post-Operative Vomiting (POV) – Combination Therapy (Pediatrics) | Details |
477 | Multimodal Pain Management | Details |
487 | Screening for Social Drivers of Health | Details |
ABG44 | Low Flow Inhalational General Anesthesia | Not supported by MIPSpro* |
AQI48* | Patient-Reported Experience with Anesthesia | Not supported by MIPSpro* |
EPREOP31 | Intraoperative Hypotension (IOH) among Non-Emergent Noncardiac Surgical Cases | Not supported by MIPSpro* |
Improvement Activities
You must report 1 of the following 3 options:
1. Two medium weighted improvement activities from the list below, or
2. One high weighted improvement activity from the list below, or
3. The IA_PCMH activity (participation in a certified or recognized patient-centered medical home
or a comparable specialty practice).
ID | Title |
IA_BE_6 | Regularly Assess Patient Experience of Care and Follow |
IA_BE_22 | Improved Practices that Engage Patients Pre-Visit |
IA_BMH_2 | Tobacco use |
IA_CC_2 | Implementation of improvements that contribute to more timely communication of test results |
IA_CC_15 | PSH Care Coordination |
IA_CC_19 | Tracking of clinician’s relationship to and responsibility for a patient by reporting MACRA patient relationship codes. |
IA_EPA_1 | Provide 24/7 Access to MIPS Eligible Clinicians or Groups Who Have Real-Time Access to Patient’s Medical Record |
IA_MVP | Practice-Wide Quality Improvement in MIPS Value Pathways |
IA_PCMH | Electronic submission of Patient Centered Medical Home accreditation |
IA_PSPA_1 | Participation in an AHRQ-listed patient safety organization |
IA_PSPA_7 | Use of QCDR data for ongoing practice assessment and improvements |
IA_PSPA_16 | Use of decision support and standardized treatment protocols |
Cost
Important information to consider:
- You don’t have to submit any data for this performance category. We’ll use Medicare claims data to
calculate your cost measure performance.
(You don’t select cost measures during MVP registration. CMS will calculate your performance
on all the cost measures included in the MVP based on available Medicare claims data.) - You’ll only be scored on the cost measures in this MVP for which you meet or exceed the established
case minimum.
ID | Title | Specs |
MSPB_1 | Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary (MSPB) Clinician | Details |
Foundational Layer – Promoting Interoperability
To fulfill Promoting Interoperability requirements:
- Submit the required Promoting Interoperability measures (the same as under traditional MIPS) listed below. Bonus points are available for reporting measures that aren’t required.
- If you’re reporting as a subgroup, you’ll submit your affiliated group’s data for the Promoting Interoperability performance category.
- Review if you qualify for automatic reweighting of the Promoting Interoperability performance category based on your clinician type, special status, or an approved Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception Application.
Clinician Types for Automatic Reweighting:
- Clinical social worker
Special Status for Automatic Reweighting:
- Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC)-based
- Hospital-based
- Non-patient facing
- Small practice
Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception Qualifications:
- Decertified EHR technology
- Insufficient internet connectivity
- Experience extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (e.g., disaster, practice closure, severe financial distress, vendor issues)
- Lack control over availability of CEHRT (Certified Electronic Health Record Technology)
Note: Promoting Interoperability requirements are the same in MVPs as they are in traditional MIPS. Learn more about Promoting Interoperability requirements.
ID | Title |
PI_EP_1 | e-prescribing |
PI_EP_2 | Query of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) |
PI_HEI_1 | Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information |
PI_HEI_4 | Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Reconciling Health Information |
PI_HEI_5 | Health Information Exchange (HIE) Bi-Directional Exchange |
PI_HEI_6 | Enabling Exchange Under TEFCA |
PI_PEA_1 | Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information |
PI_PHCDRR_1 | Immunization Registry Reporting |
PI_PHCDRR_2 | Syndromic Surveillance Reporting |
PI_PHCDRR_3 | Electronic Case Reporting |
PI_PHCDRR_4 | Public Health Registry Reporting |
PI_PHCDRR_5 | Clinical Data Registry Reporting |
PI_PPHI_1 | Security Risk Analysis |
PI_PPHI_2 | High Priority Practices Guide of the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides |
PI_INFBLO_1 | Actions to Limit or Restrict the Compatibility of CEHRT |
PI_LVITC_2 | Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Reconciling Health Information Exclusion |
PI_LVOTC_1 | Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information Exclusion |
PI_LVPP_1 | e-Prescribing Exclusion |
PI_ONCDIR_1 | ONC Direct Review Attestation |
PI_ONCACB_1 | ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation |
Foundational Layer – Population Health
You must select 1 population health measure at the time of MVP registration.
- You don’t have to submit any data for this measure, CMS will calculate the population health measures for you using administrative claims data.
- This measure will be excluded from scoring if the measure doesn’t have a benchmark or meet the case minimum.
- Population health isn’t a new performance category. The population health measure you select during MVP registration will be scored as part of the quality performance category provided you meet the case minimum.
- Subgroups will be evaluated at the affiliated group level.