2026 MIPS Improvement Activity IA_PM_20: Glycemic Referring Services

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_20, Glycemic Referring Services, is a 2026 MIPS improvement activity in the Population Management subcategory. 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

For at-risk outpatient Medicare beneficiaries, individual MIPS eligible clinicians and groups must attest to implementation of systematic preventive approaches in clinical practice for at least 60 percent for the CY 2018 performance period and 75 percent in future years, of medical records with documentation of referring eligible patients with prediabetes to a CDC-recognized diabetes prevention program operating under the framework of the National Diabetes Prevention Program.

Activity details

• Activity ID: IA_PM_20
• Subcategory: Population Management
• Programs: Traditional MIPS, APP, APP Plus
• First performance year: 2018

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