Congress’ new spending bill includes provision to slow down MIPS

Modern Healthcare February 7, 2018
Virgil Dickson

Congress is seeking to slow federal efforts to hold providers accountable for saving Medicare money under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.

While MIPS rewards or penalizes providers based on their performance, including reducing Medicare costs, the healthcare industry has claimed it was moving too fast and didn’t give them time to learn the program’s provisions.

This year, cost-cutting will account for 10% of a provider’s MIPS score. That would jump to 30% next year.

But buried deep in the continuing resolution which passed the House 245-182 Tuesday, was language that proposed giving the CMS the choice to keep cost-cutting at 10% of their MIPS score through 2021. The House bill would also block them from ever raising cost-cutting to more...

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