March 24, 2025
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) -eligible clinicians and their representatives can submit and update their MIPS data until April 14, 2025, at 8:00 PM ET. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) encourages submission of data as early as possible in advance of this extended deadline. However, it is important to note that the deadline for certain clinicians, groups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities to elect to participate in MIPS—because they are opt-in eligible due to the low-volume threshold or are partially qualifying APM participants (Partial QPs)—is still March 31, 2025, at 8:00 PM ET.
CMS notes that this extension will delay the mid-June timeline for releasing final scores and opening Targeted Review.
Additionally, in response to the ongoing national intravenous (IV) fluid shortage CMS will reopen the 2024 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception Application to provide relief to practices impacted by the shortage.
- The application will reopen Monday, March 31, 2025, at 10:00 AM ET, and will close April 14, 2025, at 8:00 PM ET.
- CMS is reopening the 2024 MIPS EUC Exception Application window in response to the national IV fluid shortage; therefore, CMS will only accept applications citing the shortage as the basis for requesting reweighting under the MIPS EUC Exception. Any applications submitted for reasons outside of the shortage will be denied.
