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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although more clinicians who participated in year two of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System will receive a bonus compared to year one, there are less participants overall, the CMS announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...