42 CFR § 414.1360 - Data submission criteria for the improvement activities performance category.

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title: "42 CFR § 414.1360 - Data submission criteria for the improvement activities performance category."
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section_number: "414.1360"
section_name: "Data submission criteria for the improvement activities performance category."
chapter_name: "CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
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# 414.1360 Data submission criteria for the improvement activities performance category.

(a) For purposes of the transition year of MIPS and future years, MIPS eligible clinicians, subgroups, or groups must submit data on MIPS improvement activities in one of the following manners:

(1) *Via direct, login and upload, and login and attest.* For the applicable performance period, submit a yes response for each improvement activity that is performed for at least a continuous 90-day period during the applicable performance period.

(i) Submit a yes response for activities within the improvement activities inventory.

(ii) [Reserved]

(2) *Groups and virtual groups.* Beginning with the 2022 performance year, each improvement activity for which groups and virtual groups submit a yes response in accordance with paragraph (a)(1) of this section must be performed by at least 50 percent of the NPIs that are billing under the group's TIN or virtual group's TINs or that are part of the subgroup, as applicable; and the NPIs must perform the same activity during any continuous 90-day period within the same performance year.

(b) [Reserved]

[81 FR 77537, Nov. 4, 2016, as amended at 82 FR 53953, Nov. 16, 2017; 83 FR 60080, Nov. 23, 2018; 84 FR 63196, Nov. 15, 2019; 86 FR 65671, Nov. 19, 2021; 88 FR 79535, Nov. 16, 2023]