The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it is suspending eight improvement activities for the 2025 performance year.
The suspension is in accordance with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Improvement Activities Suspension Policy finalized in the CY2021 Physician Fee Schedule final rule. CMS intends to propose removing these improvement activities in future rulemaking.
MIPS Improvement Activities Suspended for PY 2025
| Activity ID | Activity Name |
| IA_AHE_5 |
MIPS Eligible Clinician Leadership in Clinical Trials or CPBR |
| IA_AHE_8 | Create and Implement an Anti-Racism Plan |
| IA_AHE_9 | Implement Food Insecurity and Nutrition Risk Identification and Treatment Protocols |
| IA_AHE_11 | Create and Implement a Plan to Improve Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Patients |
| IA_AHE_12 | Practice Improvements that Engage Community Resources to Address Drivers of Health |
| IA_PM_6 | Use of Toolsets or Other Resources to Close Health and Health Care Inequities Across Communities (Use of toolset or other resources to close healthcare disparities across communities) |
| IA_ERP_3 | COVID-19 Clinical Data Reporting with or without Clinical Trial |
| IA_PM_26 | Vaccine Achievement for Practice Staff: COVID-19, Influenza, and Hepatitis B |
CMS says that clinicians should select other improvement activities to complete. However, if any of the suspended improvement activities have already been completed or were in the process of being completed, clinicians will still be able to attest to completing them and receive credit. Please review the 2025 Improvement Activities Inventory for available improvement activities.
Visit the QPP website for more information.
Source: Improvement Activities Suspension Announcement, Small Practices Newsletter, 2025
The Quality Payment Program (QPP) Small Practices Newsletter is a monthly resource that provides small practices (15 or fewer clinicians) with program updates, upcoming QPP milestones, and resources to support their continued participation and success in QPP. We send this newsletter on the second Tuesday of each month.
