(a) For a MIPS payment year, CMS uses the following quality measures, as applicable, to assess performance in the quality performance category:

(1) Measures included in the MIPS final list of quality measures established by CMS through rulemaking;

(2) QCDR measures approved by CMS under §414.1400;

(3) Facility-based measures described in §414.1380; and

(4) MIPS APM measures described in §414.1370.

(b) Unless a different scoring weight is assigned by CMS, performance in the quality performance category comprises:

(1) 60 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for MIPS payment year 2019.

(2) 50 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for MIPS payment year 2020.

(3) 45 percent of a MIPS eligible clinician's final score for MIPS payment years 2021 and 2022.

[83 FR 60078, Nov. 23, 2018, as amended at 84 FR 63195, Nov. 15, 2019]