2026 MIPS Improvement Activity IA_PM_15: Implementation of episodic care management practice improvements

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

  Subcategory: Population Management  

At a glance

IA_PM_15, Implementation of episodic care management practice improvements, is a 2026 MIPS improvement activity in the Population Management 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

Provide episodic care management, including management across transitions and referrals that could include one or more of the following:• Routine and timely follow-up to hospitalizations, ED visits and stays in other institutional settings, including symptom and disease management, and medication reconciliation and management; and/or• Managing care intensively through new diagnoses, injuries and exacerbations of illness.

Activity details

• Activity ID: IA_PM_15
• Subcategory: Population Management
• Programs: Traditional MIPS, APP, APP Plus
• First performance year: 2017

MVPs that include this activity

Coordinating Stroke Care to Promote Prevention and Cultivate Positive Outcomes; Advancing Cancer Care; Vascular Surgery

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