Modern Healthcare February 23, 2018
The CMS is inviting clinicians to sign up for study to help it determine how burdensome it is to report under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) created by MACRA.
The agency is specifically looking into clinicians’ workflow under MIPS and if the system poses hardships on them. Interested clinicians can sign up for the study through March 23.
A limited number of clinicians who are not eligible for MIPS in 2018 will also be included in the study to compare their workflows.
Depending on the results, researchers will make recommendations to eliminate the burdens and improve quality data capture, reporting and enhance clinical care, a CMS spokeswoman said.
Under MIPS, physician pay is based on success in four performance...