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Medicare Program; Advanced
Alternative Payment Model (APM)
Incentive Payment Advisory for
Clinicians—Request for Current
Banking Information for Qualifying
APM Participants
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Payment advisory.
This advisory is to alert
certain clinicians who are Qualifying
APM participants (QPs) and eligible to
receive an Advanced Alternative
Payment Model (APM) Incentive
Payment that CMS does not have the
current banking information needed to
disburse the payment. This advisory
provides information to these clinicians
on how to update their banking
information to receive this payment.
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Under the Medicare Quality Payment
Program, an eligible clinician who
participates in Advanced Alternative
Payment Models (APMs) and meets the
applicable payment amount or patient
count thresholds for a performance year
is a Qualifying APM Participant (QP) for
that year. QPs earn a 5 percent lump
sum APM Incentive Payment in the
payment years 2019 through 2024 based
on the QP Performance Period 2 years
prior. The amount of the APM Incentive
Payment is 5 percent of the payments
for Part B covered professional services
paid for the calendar year immediately
preceding the payment year.
We began disbursing the 2019 APM
Incentive Payment on September 26,
2019, and these disbursements are
ongoing. The 2019 APM Incentive
Payment is for eligible clinicians who
were determined to be QPs based on
their participation in Advanced APMs
in the 2017 QP Performance Period.
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II. Provisions of the Advisory
CMS is issuing this advisory to notify
the QPs who are eligible for a 2019 APM
Incentive Payment and are listed at
https://qpp-cm-prodcontent.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/
757/2019%20QP%20Notice%20for%
20APM%20Incentive%20Payment.pdf
that after several attempts to identify
current banking information through
which to make the disbursement, we
have been unable to do so. Eligible
clinicians who are on the referenced list
should follow the directions for
contacting CMS and to provide updated
information as specified at https://qppcm-prod-content.s3.amazonaws.com/
uploads/757/2019
%20QP%20Notice%20for%
20APM%20Incentive%20Payment.pdf
and must do so no later than February
28, 2020.
We note that our regulation at
§ 414.1450(d) provides that CMS will
make the CY 2019 APM Incentive
Payment no later than December 31,
2019. We acknowledge that pursuant to
this advisory, CMS anticipates
disbursing the APM Incentive Payment
to some QPs after December 31, 2019.
We have made every effort to make all
CY 2019 APM Incentive Payments on or
before December 31, 2019. However, CY
2019 was the inaugural year us to issue
the APM Incentive Payments. As we
identified the QPs who are the subject
of this advisory, we made continued
efforts, but still have not located current
banking information for them. We
believe it is necessary and appropriate
to afford the identified QPs the
opportunity to provide us with their
current banking information and receive
their CY 2019 APM Incentive Payments.
Therefore, we are extending the
payment process into CY 2020 by giving
the identified individuals the
opportunity to provide us the necessary
information by February 28, 2020, the
deadline provided in this advisory, and
appropriately disbursing the CY 2019
APM Incentive Payments thereafter as
soon as practicable. We fully expect,
after this inaugural year of the
Advanced APM Incentive Payment, to
make all payments within the timeframe
specified in regulation.
Dated: December 19, 2019.
Seema Verma,
Administrator, Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
42 CFR Part 414
[CMS-5530-N]
Medicare Program; Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM)
Incentive Payment Advisory for Clinicians--Request for Current Banking
Information for Qualifying APM Participants
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Payment advisory.
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SUMMARY: This advisory is to alert certain clinicians who are
Qualifying APM participants (QPs) and eligible to receive an Advanced
Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Payment that CMS does not
have the current banking information needed to disburse the payment.
This advisory provides information to these clinicians on how to update
their banking information to receive this payment.
DATES: This advisory is effective on December 30, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brittany LaCouture, (410) 786-0481.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Under the Medicare Quality Payment Program, an eligible clinician
who participates in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and
meets the applicable payment amount or patient count thresholds for a
performance year is a Qualifying APM Participant (QP) for that year.
QPs earn a 5 percent lump sum APM Incentive Payment in the payment
years 2019 through 2024 based on the QP Performance Period 2 years
prior. The amount of the APM Incentive Payment is 5 percent of the
payments for Part B covered professional services paid for the calendar
year immediately preceding the payment year.
We began disbursing the 2019 APM Incentive Payment on September 26,
2019, and these disbursements are ongoing. The 2019 APM Incentive
Payment is for eligible clinicians who were determined to be QPs based
on their participation in Advanced APMs in the 2017 QP Performance
Period.
II. Provisions of the Advisory
CMS is issuing this advisory to notify the QPs who are eligible for
a 2019 APM Incentive Payment and are listed at https://qpp-cm-prod-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/757/2019%20QP%20Notice%20for%20APM%20Incentive%20Payment.pdf that after
several attempts to identify current banking information through which
to make the disbursement, we have been unable to do so. Eligible
clinicians who are on the referenced list should follow the directions
for contacting CMS and to provide updated information as specified at
https://qpp-cm-prod-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/757/2019%20QP%20Notice%20for%20APM%20Incentive%20Payment.pdf and must do so
no later than February 28, 2020.
We note that our regulation at Sec. 414.1450(d) provides that CMS
will make the CY 2019 APM Incentive Payment no later than December 31,
2019. We acknowledge that pursuant to this advisory, CMS anticipates
disbursing the APM Incentive Payment to some QPs after December 31,
2019. We have made every effort to make all CY 2019 APM Incentive
Payments on or before December 31, 2019. However, CY 2019 was the
inaugural year us to issue the APM Incentive Payments. As we identified
the QPs who are the subject of this advisory, we made continued
efforts, but still have not located current banking information for
them. We believe it is necessary and appropriate to afford the
identified QPs the opportunity to provide us with their current banking
information and receive their CY 2019 APM Incentive Payments.
Therefore, we are extending the payment process into CY 2020 by giving
the identified individuals the opportunity to provide us the necessary
information by February 28, 2020, the deadline provided in this
advisory, and appropriately disbursing the CY 2019 APM Incentive
Payments thereafter as soon as practicable. We fully expect, after this
inaugural year of the Advanced APM Incentive Payment, to make all
payments within the timeframe specified in regulation.
Dated: December 19, 2019.
Seema Verma,
Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
[FR Doc. 2019-28010 Filed 12-26-19; 8:45 am]
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