Under MACRA's MIPS, which is NOT a category?

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Under MACRA, MIPS evaluates clinicians across four performance categories: Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities. Patient satisfaction is not a separate category within MIPS. While patient experience can influence care quality and may be addressed indirectly through certain quality measures or improvement activities, there isn’t a distinct MIPS domain called patient satisfaction. The four categories each target a different aspect of care: Quality looks at outcomes and care processes, Cost covers resource use, Promoting Interoperability focuses on health IT use and data exchange, and Improvement Activities reward practice changes that improve care delivery. So, patient satisfaction does not constitute its own category, which is why it’s the correct choice for “NOT a category.”