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 ...

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 ...

Nate C. Apathy is a postdoctoral fellow at the Perelman School of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, both at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At ...

Over the past decade and a half, CMS introduced various performance-based payment models that transformed into today’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Under MIPS, clinicians receive ...

Launched in 2017 to reward high-value clinicians with upward reimbursement adjustments and penalize low-value clinicians with downward adjustments, the nationwide Medicare 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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Momentum appeared to be growing on Thursday for a proposal from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to get rid of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for ...

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for medical groups and health systems nationwide, today announced that clinicians ...

The agency's proposed changes to the Quality Payment Program drew a mixed response from industry stakeholders. Major changes are in store for the Merit-based Inventive Payment System (MIPS) in 2019, ...

Stakeholders in the Medicare value-based care world have without a doubt heard of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and alternative payment models (APMs).