As much as they dislike aspects of MIPS, two major physician groups disagree with a vote by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday to replace the Medicare payment system that’s been in ...

BOSTON—For all the work involved in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), the highest-scoring physicians ended up with a 2.02% payment adjustment, leaving them disheartened with the program ...

Medicare's fledgling Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) would incorporate the same drawbacks of earlier approaches for pegging physician reimbursement to judgments about quality of care, with ...

Medicare Program; Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Criteria for Physician-Focused Payment Models DATES: ...

Physicians now have two options for MIPS reporting: MIPS Value Pathways and the Alternative Payment Model Performance Pathway. Each MVP unit includes a subset of measures and activities that are more ...

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In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a number of changes to its Quality Payment Program and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Under existing MIPS ...

An association representing multispecialty medical groups is urging Congress to implement the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act and eliminate exclusions under the act’s Merit-based ...

Becker’s tapped Tim Gronniger, senior vice president of strategy and development at Caravan Health, to answer this question. Mr. Gronniger served as the CMS deputy chief of staff under the Obama ...

SAN DIMAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has formally released group feedback for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is meant to ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published 2017 MIPS performance data from the first year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Implemented through the Medicare Access and ...

How Difficult Will MIPS Be? Many details of the MIPS program won't be known until the final rule is issued. However, experts in measurement programs have been drawing many tentative conclusions. Here ...