MVP: Quality Care for the Treatment of Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders

To fulfill quality requirements:

1. You must select 4 quality measures from the list below
   (exception for clinicians in a small practice – see # 3 below)
   
2. At least 1 measure must be an outcome measure
   
   • If no outcome measures are available, you may report a high priority measure.
3. If you are part of a small practice (i.e., 15 or fewer clinicians) reporting quality measures through Medicare Part B claims, you don’t need to report additional measures beyond the Medicare Part B claims measures available in this MVP. Reporting all of the Medicare Part B claims measures in this MVP will fulfill your quality reporting requirements.
4. 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: For small practices (participating at the individual, group or subgroup level) reporting Medicare Part B claims measures: To meet data completeness requirements, you’ll need to start reporting the Medicare Part B claims measures in your selected MVP in January 2024, prior to the MVP registration period.
   
   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	Specs
128	Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow-Up Plan	Details
226	Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	Details
277	Sleep Apnea: Severity Assessment at Initial Diagnosis	Details
331	Adult Sinusitis: Antibiotic Prescribed for Acute Viral Sinusitis (Overuse)	Details
332	Adult Sinusitis: Appropriate Choice of Antibiotic: Amoxicillin With or Without Clavulanate Prescribed for Patients with Acute Bacterial Sinusitis (Appropriate Use)	Details
355	Unplanned Reoperation within the 30 Day Postoperative Period	Details
357	Surgical Site Infection (SSI)	Details
487	Screening for Social Drivers of Health	Details
AAO16	Age-Related Hearing Loss: Comprehensive Audiometric Evaluation	Not supported by MIPSpro*
AAO20	Tympanostomy Tubes: Comprehensive Audiometric Evaluation	Not supported by MIPSpro*
AAO21	Otitis Media with Effusion (OME): Comprehensive Audiometric Evaluation for Chronic OME > or = 3 months	Not supported by MIPSpro*
AAO23	Allergic Rhinitis: Intranasal Corticosteroids or Oral Antihistamines	Not supported by MIPSpro*

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_AHE_3	Promote Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Tools
IA_AHE_5	MIPS Eligible Clinician Leadership in Clinical Trials or CBPR
IA_BE_15	Engagement of Patients, Family, and Caregivers in Developing a Plan of Care
IA_BE_4	Engagement of patients through implementation of improvements in patient portal
IA_CC_1	Implementation of Use of Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop
IA_CC_13	Practice Improvements to Align with OpenNotes Principles
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_PM_16	Implementation of medication management practice improvements
IA_PSPA_7	Use of QCDR data for ongoing practice assessment and improvements

Important information to consider:

1. 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.)
   
2. 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

To fulfill Promoting Interoperability requirements:

1. 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.
2. 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_ONCACB_1	ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation
PI_ONCDIR_1	ONC Direct Review  Attestation

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.

ID	Title	Specs
479	Hospital-Wide, 30-Day, All-Cause Unplanned Readmission (HWR) Rate for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Groups	Details
484	Clinician and Clinician Group Risk-standardized Hospital Admission Rates for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions	Details