2026 MIPS Improvement Activity IA_PSPA_4: Administration of the AHRQ Survey of Patient Safety Culture

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

  Subcategory: Patient Safety and Practice Assessment  

At a glance

IA_PSPA_4, Administration of the AHRQ Survey of Patient Safety Culture, is a 2026 MIPS improvement activity in the Patient Safety and Practice Assessment subcategory, included in 1 MVP. 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

Administration of the AHRQ Survey of Patient Safety Culture and submission of data to the comparative database (refer to AHRQ Survey of Patient Safety Culture website http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/index.html). Note: This activity may be selected once every 4 years, to avoid duplicative information given that some of the modules may change on a year by year basis but over 4 years there would be a reasonable expectation for the set of modules to have undergone substantive change, for the improvement activities performance category score.

Activity details

• Activity ID: IA_PSPA_4
• Subcategory: Patient Safety and Practice Assessment
• Programs: Traditional MIPS, APP, APP Plus
• First performance year: 2017

MVPs that include this activity

Advancing Care for Heart Disease

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