2026 MIPS Improvement Activity IA_CC_12: Care coordination agreements that promote improvements in patient tracking across settings

Written by Tucker Deyett, Dedicated Advisor, ReportingMD. Source data: CMS Quality Payment Program 2026 measure specifications and benchmark files.

  Subcategory: Care Coordination  

At a glance

IA_CC_12, Care coordination agreements that promote improvements in patient tracking across settings, is a 2026 MIPS improvement activity in the Care Coordination subcategory, included in 3 MVPs. For PY2026 activities are not weighted: clinicians with small practice, rural, non-patient-facing, or HPSA status attest to one activity, all other Traditional MIPS participants attest to two, and MVP participants attest to one.

Activity description

Establish effective care coordination and active referral management that could include one or more of the following:• Establish care coordination agreements with frequently used consultants that set expectations for documented flow of information and MIPS eligible clinician or MIPS eligible clinician group expectations between settings. Provide patients with information that sets their expectations consistently with the care coordination agreements; • Track patients referred to specialist through the entire process; and/or• Systematically integrate information from referrals into the plan of care.

Activity details

• Activity ID: IA_CC_12
• Subcategory: Care Coordination
• Programs: Traditional MIPS, APP, APP Plus
• First performance year: 2017

MVPs that include this activity

Rehabilitative Support for Musculoskeletal Care; Diagnostic Radiology; Pathology

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