Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will apply an automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to all clinicians participating as individuals in the Quality Payment Program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System for the 2021 performance period, the agency announced today. The automatic policy does not apply to groups, virtual groups or alternative payment model entities, who may apply through Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET for an extreme and uncontrollable circumstances exception.

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