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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the first round of participation and performance data for the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), including both Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Model (APM) participation.

You can view the 2023 QPP Participation and Performance Results At-a-Glance resource, with aggregated data for key QPP program metrics, including a high-level overview of participation, scoring, and payment adjustment information.

Highlights of the data include:

• The total number of MIPS eligible clinicians receiving a payment adjustment, including the number and percentage of non-reporting clinicians (541,421).
• The mean (83.18 pts) and median (85.49 pts) 2023 MIPS final scores, as well as the mean and median unweighted scores for each performance category.
• The maximum 2025 MIPS payment adjustment amount (paid to clinicians with a final score of 100 points) (2.15%).
• The total number of Qualifying APM Participants (QPs).

CMS will release additional resources by July of 2025, including:

• The 2023 QPP Experience Report will provide a more in-depth review of aggregated data on QPP program experience and review of program trends over time.
• The 2023 QPP Public Use File will provide clinician-level data at the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN)/National Provider Identifier (NPI) level regarding clinician eligibility, measure level scoring, performance category scoring, final scores, and payment adjustments factors.