RevCycle Intelligence January 24, 2018
Clinicians feel uncomfortable and unprepared for the Quality Payment Program according to a new survey, while MedPAC voted to recommend repealing MIPS.
Almost three-quarters (71 percent) of clinicians are “not very comfortable” or “not comfortable at all” with new measures under MACRA’s Quality Payment Program, and about 62 percent perceive the program’s measures as either “not very important” or “not important at all” to their practice, a new survey showed.
The survey of primary care and specialty, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners by Haymarket Medical Education/myCME uncovered that the majority of clinicians are critical of the Quality Payment Program.
“It is misguided and defeats the idea of quality medicine by reducing it to a series of arbitrary check marks and...