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 ...

With the first participation year of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act’s Quality Payment Program well underway, many physician practices need to identify short- and long-term compliance ...

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 ...

Learning the Best Ways to Earn MIPS Scoring: Different Points, Based on How You Sent in Your Data Should You Bother to Participate in MIPS? Weigh the Factors MIPS Scoring: Different Points, Based on ...

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 ...

You've been hearing a lot about MIPS lately. It seems that everywhere you look someone has an eBook or a webinar that will reveal all of the secrets to successfully submitting to MIPS with one ...

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 ...

A national survey of physicians elicits beliefs regarding how the Merit-based Incentive Payment System domains drive value. Objectives: To understand physician perspectives about drivers of value ...

WASHINGTON -- The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted 14-2 to in favor of killing the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and replacing it with an alternative model of ...

The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) allows the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, to define a low-volume threshold for the purpose of ...

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. Researchers said a Medicare program designed to ...