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 ...

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 ...

Aimed at improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery in the U.S., the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) presents both opportunities and threats to future ...

Providers pushed back on CMS' plans to overhaul the Quality Payment Program with a new push toward value-based arrangements. They said it is not ready to implement and eventually replace the ...

The Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) unfairly penalizes physicians caring for a patient population with more complex medical needs, according to a study in JAMA Network. MIPS, the ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) conducted a formal vote that recommend repealing and replacing CMS’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The Medicare Payment Advisory ...

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 ...

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 ...

On June 20, CMS released its much-anticipated 2018 Quality Payment Program proposed rule, aimed at simplifying reporting requirements for year two of the program implementing the Medicare Access and ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a federal group tasked to advise Congress on Medicare, voted 14-2 on Thursday in favor of recommending Congress eliminate the Merit-based Incentive Payment ...