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 Payment Advisory Committee believes the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, which CMS began implementing this year, is “burdensome and inequitable,” and should be eliminated with ...

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 ...

A coalition of organizations, including the AHA, urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to ensure accountable care organizations and Merit-based Incentive Payment System-eligible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study by the Brookings Institution claims physicians would earn more in Medicare reimbursements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System mandated by MACRA legislation than with other ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Caravan Health today commented on the approval of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The two-year budget bill – approved by the U.S. Congress on ...

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 Should You Bother to Participate in MIPS?

MIPS will create "a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots," Dr Burroughs predicts. Because it's a zero-sum payment system, "the low-performers will have to pay a lot of money in penalties, ...