The GIQuIC 2025 Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) is approved to report for individual eligible providers, groups, and virtual groups to the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), specifically the Quality, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities performance categories.
If you are considering using the GIQuIC QCDR to report to CMS’ MIPS program for the 2025 reporting year, please watch the following webinar and check back throughout the year as we will add more. They will outline the steps you need to take now in order to report to MIPS through GIQuIC in 2025.
April 2, 2025: Understanding MIPS Payment Adjustments: Navigating Your Reporting Options with GIQuIC
- Click here for Understanding MIPS Payment Adjustments: Navigating Your Reporting Options with GIQuIC webinar
- Click here for Understanding MIPS Payment Adjustments: Navigating Your Reporting Options with GIQuIC slides
- Click here for Understanding MIPS Payment Adjustments: Navigating Your Reporting Options with GIQuIC handout – MIPS Overview Quick Start Guide
To report via the GIQuIC 2025 QCDR, a provider must be registered and actively participating in GIQuIC by submitting data and running measure reports no later than June 30, 2025.
If a physician is MIPS-eligible in 2025:
- They must submit data for three performance categories, including:
- Quality – 30% of MIPS score
- Improvement Activities – 15% of MIPS score
- Promoting Interoperability – 25% of MIPS score
- CMS will collect and calculate data for the Cost Performance Category – 30% of MIPS score
- Individual eligible providers, groups, and virtual groups can report to the Quality, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities performance categories via the GIQuIC 2025 QCDR
- A final MIPS score of 0 to 100 points will be calculated according to performance across the four MIPS performance categories
- The final score determines whether a physician or group receives a negative, neutral, or positive MIPS payment adjustment; 75 points overall is needed to avoid a negative payment adjustment
- A MIPS payment adjustment that reflects performance during 2025 will be applied to payments for covered professional services in 2027
- Click here for CMS’ 2025 MIPS Quick Start Guide
MIPS Performance Categories
Quality Performance Category
The Quality Performance Category uses measures to evaluate clinician performance reflecting the quality of healthcare that is being provided to patients and accounts for 30% of the final MIPS score. Reporting GI-specific quality measures is a key benefit of participating in GIQuIC and reporting to CMS’ MIPS program via the GIQuIC 2025 QCDR.
2025 GIQuIC QCDR Measures
Click here for complete numerator/denominator descriptions of each of the 2025 GIQuIC QCDR measures.
Getting Started with Quality
Put together your Quality Plan of Action:
* Please note that the CMS submission deadline is March 31, 2026. If you are submitting via the GIQUIC Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), you must adhere to GIQuIC’s published submission deadline which will be mid-March 2026.
** CMS requires physicians to review their performance at least four times throughout the
2025 performance year.
For more information about the Quality Performance Category for the 2025 Performance Year, please visit: https://qpp.cms.gov/mips/quality-requirements.
Improvement Activities Performance Category
The Improvement Activities performance category rewards participants for activities that improve clinical practice and accounts for 15% of the final MIPS score. CMS provides a list of more than 100 suggested activities in their Improvement Activities Inventory so you can select those that best fit your practice to improve patient engagement, safety, and care. Those reporting via the GI Care MVP have a limited selection of improvement activities from which to choose. To learn more about Improvement Activities and to access the CMS inventory select here and be sure the Performance Year is set to “2025.” An improvement activity must be conducted over a minimum of 90 days. The last day to initiate a 2025 improvement activity eligible for reporting is October 3, 2025.
For more information about the Improvement Activities Performance Category for the 2024 Performance Year, please visit: https://qpp.cms.gov/mips/improvement-activities.
Promoting Interoperability Performance Category
The Promoting Interoperability Performance Category emphasizes the use of certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) to facilitate the exchange of information between clinicians, pharmacies, and patients to improve outcomes. It accounts for 25% of the final MIPS score.
Getting Started with Promoting Interoperability
Put together your Promoting Interoperability Plan of Action:
* Please note that the CMS submission deadline is March 31, 2026. If you are submitting Promoting Operability data and attestations via the GIQUIC Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), you must adhere to GIQuIC’s published submission deadline which will be mid-March 2026.
For more information about the Promoting Interoperability Performance Category for the 2025 Performance Year, please visit: https://qpp.cms.gov/mips/promoting-interoperability. A MIPS eligible clinician must collect data for the required measures in their certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) for a minimum of 180 continuous days during the calendar year. MIPS eligible clinicians recognized by CMS as having a special status (e.g., small practice) have the option to report Promoting Interoperability; if they choose not to report Promoting Interoperability, the weight of the category towards their final score is redistribute to the other performance categories.