The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released additional performance data for the 2017 Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP).

According to CMS, 93 percent of more than 1 million Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians received a positive payment adjustment for their performance in 2017, and 95 percent overall avoided a negative payment adjustment. Seventy-one percent earned a positive adjustment and an adjustment for exceptional performance; 22 percent earned a positive payment adjustment only; 2 percent received no increase or decrease; and 5 percent received a negative payment adjustment.

The maximum positive payment adjustment for exceptional performance was a modest 1.88 percent, resulting from the budget neutrality requirements in MIPS, as established by law under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).

From a scoring perspective, the overall national average score for MIPS-eligible clinicians was 74.01 points, and the national median was 88.97 points. Clinicians participating in MIPS as individuals or groups received an average score of 65.71 points and a median score of 83.04 points. Clinicians participating in MIPS through an alternative payment model received an average score of 87.64 points and a median score of 91.67 points

For more details of the 2017 performance data, visit the CMS website.