Better Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality scores were rarely associated with lower rates of hospital complications during the first year of program implementation, according to a ...

Newswise — RESTON, VA — New research from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute found that most Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality measures designated as “topped out” by the ...

Even as hundreds of thousands of physicians spend many hours reporting to Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a new study in JAMA finds that the program's quality scores don't ...

A recent study out of the Weill Cornell Medical College questions whether the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) accurately captures the quality of care delivered by primary care physicians.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) as part of its ongoing revisions to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program, which was ...

There has been widespread concern over the design of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) since its authorization with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Using ...

Here's how to select the measures that will maximize your success under Medicare's new Quality Payment Program. Family physicians in 2017 are in the first performance year of the Merit-based Incentive ...

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Oct. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- United Rheumatology (UR), the pre-eminent service organization optimizing the practice of community rheumatologists, today announced that it has applied ...

Quality measures reported by rheumatology practices using the RISE registry significantly varied in the first quarter of 2017, with financial repercussions for practices through the new Merit-Based ...

As Medicare modifies programs to accelerate the nationwide shift toward value-based payment, the MIPS APM designation will be an important one for clinicians to consider and policy makers to monitor.