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Step 3: Meet CMS’ Minimum Reporting Requirements

Medicare requires that eligible professionals report on at least six quality measures for at least 60% of eligible patient visits (a professional’s Part B patients for whom the measure applies according to the measure frequency specification). The AQC recommends that audiologists report on all six measures whenever the patient qualifies.

To avoid a MIPS payment penalty in 2021, in 2019 audiologists must

  • report a positive action on a minimum of 60% of the Medicare patients visits for hearing evaluations, vestibular evaluations, and/or tinnitus evaluations for Measure #130, Measure #134, and Measure #226, AND
  • report a positive action on a minimum of 60% of the eligible Medicare patients seen for vestibular evaluations for Measure #154, Measure #155, and Measure #261.

Audiology Quality Consortium Members

  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • American Academy of Audiology
  • Academy of Doctors of Audiology
  • Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology
  • Association of VA Audiologists
  • Directors of Speech and Hearing Programs in State Health and Welfare Agencies
  • Educational Audiology Association
  • Military Audiology Association
  • National Hearing Conservation Association
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