MIPS News & Information

Through a successful collaboration between the NAN Professional Affairs & Information Committee (PAIC) and APA, we are pleased to share that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced approval of FIVE new quality measures that are eligible for MIPS-reporting for neuropsychologists and assessment-oriented psychologists.

There are now specific measures tailored to an assessment-oriented practice model and it is essential that reporting on these measures occurs so that they remain available for future reporting years. These measures include: 

1. Cognitive assessment results inform potential patient Safety Risks
   Successful completion of this measure includes cognitive assessment with reporting of results documenting how assessment results informed potential patient safety risks 
   
   
2. Consideration and integration of cultural-linguistic factors in assessment results 
   Successful completion of measure includes administration of cognitive assessment with reporting of results including integration of relevant patient-related cultural and linguistic factors.  
   
   
3. Cognitive assessment with reporting of results including clarification of diagnostic factors
   Successful completion of this measure includes administration of cognitive assessment with reporting of results including clarification of relevant diagnostic factors.  
   
   
4. Efficiency of reporting assessment results 
   Successful completion of this measure includes administration of cognitive assessment with feedback/reporting of results to patient or other receiver (i.e., caregiver/referral source) within 14 days of completion of the evaluation. 
   
   
5. Documentation of patient/caregiver understanding of assessment results and treatment plan 
   Successful completion of this measure includes administration of cognitive assessment with feedback of results to patient/caregiver and corresponding documentation that receiver of information understood the results of assessment and corresponding recommendations.  

For more detailed information on these measures, click here.

APA / NAN Joint Webinar - View Now OnDemand

Successful Use of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for Neuropsychologists

Presented by:

C. Vaile Wright, PhD
Senior Director, Health Care Innovation, APA







Nick Bott, PsyD
Global Head of Technology Ethics and Responsible Innovation, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
APA MBHR-MBC committee member & NAN Professional Affairs & Information Committee (PAIC) Member

C. Vaile Wright, Ph.D., is the Senior Director of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association. She is a licensed psychologist, and researcher focusing on developing strategies to leverage technology and data to address issues within health care including increasing and expanding access, measuring care and optimizing treatment delivery at both the individual and system levels. She serves on several measure development technical expert panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and initiated the development of APA’s Mental and Behavioral Health Registry. As a spokesperson for APA, she has been interviewed by television, radio, print and online media including CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR on a range of topics including stress, politics, discrimination and harassment, COVID, serious mental illness, telehealth and technology, and access to mental health care.

Nick Bott, Psy.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist by training with expertise in multi-modal digital phenotyping and high-value healthcare systems delivery design.  He currently serves as Takeda's global head of bioethics & technology ethics, where he leads the company's enterprise-wide program in ethics of emerging technologies. Previously, he served as Associate Fellowship Director of Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) design fellowship for high value health care. Nick has also served as the Chief Science and Privacy Officer at Neurotrack Technologies, where he pioneered digital clinical care of individuals at-risk for and living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Nick currently serves on the National Academy of Neuropsychology Professional Affairs and Information Committee and is a member of the APA Measurement-based Care and Mental and Behavioral Health Registry Committee.

Thank you to the Ad hoc Committee to Research and Develop Performance Based Measures for Neuropsychology:

• Tresa Roebuck Spencer, Ph.D., Past President, National Academy of Neuropsychology
• NAN Professional Affairs and Information Committee (PAIC) Representatives – Nick Bott, Psy.D., Kari Eng Psy.D., & Jennifer Morgan, Psy.D.
• NAN Policy and Planning (P&P) Committee Representative – Robin Hilsabeck, Ph.D., P&P Chair, & Molly Colvin, Ph.D.
• C. Vaile Wright, Ph.D., APA Office of Health Care Innovation