Protect your practice against a MIPS penalty, including by failing to participate in the program if required. Determine your 2018 MIPS goal and establish a reporting strategy for the data you are ...

MedPAC voted 14-2 in favor of recommending to Congress that it kill MIPS and replace it with an alternative model, called the Voluntary Value Program. But MGMA labeled that model a “poor ...

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 ...

Mr. Gronniger served as the CMS deputy chief of staff under the Obama administration and helped write MIPS. Here we answer five top questions about the short-term future of the MIPS program. 1.

MIPS is premised on the assumption that Medicare can measure and pay for high quality at the level of the individual clinician, and that assumption leads to a fundamentally unworkable program.

Now, the CMS MIPS program is reaching the end of its transitional period (2017 – 2021), with the full program set to roll out in 2022.

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 ...

MIPS is a nationwide pay-for-performance program that aims to reward clinicians who provide high-value care with upward professional services payment adjustments, while penalizing clinicians who ...

Scoring for physicians in the MIPS track placed a higher weightage (60%) on care quality for 2017, while cost was at 0%. However, this was expected to shift by 2019, with each measure given a 30% ...