Becker's Healthcare November 1, 2019
CMS’ reworked the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, to simplify reporting requirements for providers in its 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Quality Payment Program Final Rule.
What you should know:
1. The reworked MIPS is one of several changes in the rule, which goes into effect, Jan. 1, 2021. In the reworked system, providers will be able to pick which clinical and specialty-related measurement sets are relevant to their practice and report stats towards that.
CMS said the reworked framework will allow patients to compare physician performance based on a combination of the measures, a set of claims-based population measures and a set of interoperability measures. “In this way, [physicians] will be held accountable for fewer but more meaningful measures,” CMS wrote...
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