March 18, 2024

In This Communication:

HHS Briefing on Response

to Cyber-Attack

on Change Healthcare

HHS Hosting a Briefing Tuesday, March 19 at 4:00 p.m. ET

Please join the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm, along with leadership from the Immediate Office of the Secretary and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to learn how HHS is responding to the cyber-attack on Change Healthcare on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET. CMS will provide an overview of how to apply for Medicare advance and accelerated payments, and leaders from UnitedHealth Group will demonstrate how to apply for funding the company has made available to health care professionals. You can register for the briefing using this link

 

Provider Briefing on Response to Cyberattack on Change Healthcare

Date: Tuesday, March 19

Time: 4:00-4:45pm ET

You can register using this link 

CMS Reopens 2023 MIPS EUC Application - Submission Deadline is April 15th by 8:00 p.m. ET

In response to the Change Healthcare cyberattack in late February, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the data submission deadline and is now reopening the 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception Application to provide relief to MIPS eligible clinicians impacted by the Change Healthcare cyber-security incident. The application will be open for the remainder of the extended data submission period, which closes April 15, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET. The 2023 MIPS EUC hardship exemption is not automatic and requires physicians to apply. If a physician or practice has already submitted data and would like to take advantage of this flexibility, it requires logging into the CMS portal and updating the submission. IMPORTANT: Because CMS is reopening the 2023 MIPS EUC Exception Application window in response to the Change Healthcare cyber-attack, CMS will only approve applications citing this cyber-attack as the basis for requesting reweighting under the MIPS EUC Exception. Any applications submitted for reasons outside of the Change Healthcare cyber-attack will be denied. Additionally, any data submitted to CMS will override your application for those performance categories. Read more.

The CMS announcement includes details about the following information:

  1. 2023 MIPS Data Submission Deadline
  2. Who Can Submit a 2023 MIPS EUC Exception Application?
  3. What If We’ve Already Submitted Some Data?
  4. How Do I Apply?
  5. Additional Resources


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