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 ...

MIPS was established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), and came into effect on Jan. 1, 2017, the first year of the quality payment program (QPP).

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.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, known as MACRA, gives physicians two reimbursement options. On one hand they can choose MIPS, which has its own benchmarking for quality and ...

A Medicare pay-for-performance program may have done more harm than good, a new study finds—results that don’t bode well for the future success of MIPS.

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 ...

There was also, however, general agreement or recognition that CMS has substantial flexibility to modify or re-invent the program. There are essentially two, inter-related problems with MIPS.

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 ...

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