VQI: QPP Webinar Materials are Available Online

Feb 28, 2018

Materials from the February webinar on the Quality Payment Program, including how surgeons can still avoid reimbursement penalties for 2017, are now available online.

The materials will also inform surgeons and their staff how to:

• Get started with 2018 reporting

• The increased requirements to avoid penalties and obtain bonus payments

• The MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) reporting requirements to maximize reimbursement based on their 2018 data.

The SVS Quality and Performance Measures Committee and the SVS Patient Safety Organization presented the webinar. It also included information on the SVS Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) and how it can help vascular surgeons meet MIPS requirements. The SVS VQI is an approved Qualified Clinical Data Registry, which provides 25 quality measures that can be used to fulfill the Quality Measures component of MIPS reporting requirements.

View the materials at vsweb.org/215webinar.

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