04/03/2026    Michael Brody, DPM

Podiatry and MIPS in 2026

The reporting period for the MIPS for 2025 is now
over and it is time to look at MIPS for 2026.
One of the biggest changes in MIPS for podiatry is
the new podiatry MIPS Value Pathway (MVP). Kudos
to the APMA for working with CMS to have this
pathway created.

With the Podiatry MVP, there is a short list of
measures that are relevant to the practice of
podiatry. When a podiatrist elects to participate
in the MVP, they are only required to report four
(4) measures rather than the six (6) required for
traditional MIPS. This change alone reduces the
burden of reporting by 33%.

The published MVP also provides EHR developers a
‘roadmap’ on tools to put into their programs if
they want to support our profession. Many but not
all of the vendors who claim to be “podiatry
friendly” have built these measures into their
programs. Unfortunately, some have chosen not to
implement these features.

NextGen, one of the vendors who markets strongly
to the podiatry profession has been requested, by
one of their podiatry clients, to support the
measures in the podiatry MVP and this was their
response: (I have removed the practice identifiers
to the privacy of that practice)

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Most Recent Case Comment: Hello K****,

NextGen Office supports electronic Clinical
Quality Measures (eCQMs) only. With eCQMs,
clinicians can document data in structured fields
within the Electronic Health Record (EHR),
typically as part of the clinical workflow (e.g.,
entering orders or prescribing medications
electronically).

The measures you provided are traditional CQMs,
which rely on manual data abstraction. Because of
this, NextGen Office is not able to capture or
calculate these measures, as they are not
supported within the eCQM framework.

To ensure accurate reporting, you will need to use
measures that are available as eCQMs within
NextGen Office. If you are required to report
CQMs, this would need to be done outside of
NextGen Office using an alternative reporting
method.

CQM Measure data cannot be captured electronically
via the EHR.

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Account Name: H****
Category: Admin
Topic: EHR Setup
Subject: MIPS Quality Measurements for Podiatry

Thank you,
Kishan
The NextGen Healthcare Team

This is very frustrating because I know and work
with many vendors that do support the CQM
measures that would enable reporting of the
Podiatry MVP. Many podiatrists do use NextGen
and we are a significant source of income for the
company. Lets use this forum to band together and
get this EHR to start properly supporting our
profession.

Submitted by Michael L Brody, DPM

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