[456] These policies are expected to drive growth in participation, particularly in rural and underserved areas, promote equity, and advance alignment across accountable care initiatives, and are central to achieving CMS' goal of having 100 percent of people with Traditional Medicare in a care relationship with accountability for quality and total cost of care by 2030
The data submitted from the final list of MIPS quality measures are used to assess the performance of an individual MIPS eligible clinician, group, virtual group, subgroup, or APM Entity for the quality performance category, to contribute to their overall score, and to help determine the payment adjustment for MIPS eligible clinicians
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In this example, the reduction in ACO PY assigned beneficiary expenditures due to the adjustment for improper payments was larger than the reduction to the updated benchmark stemming from adjustments to PY national and regional expenditures, ultimately ( causing the ACO to see an increase in both gross savings and shared savings