Healthcare Informatics March 20, 2018
As Associate Editor Heather Landi noted in her report Monday about the latest developments around the MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015) law, and its component, MIPS (the Merit-based Incentive Payment System), the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC—an independent commission whose mandate is to advise Congress on Medicare payment and quality issues) this month issued its report to Congress, recommending that the MIPS program be eliminated and replaced with an alternative model of reimbursement. MedPAC submits two reports to Congress each year, in March and in June. Back in January, MedPAC voted 14-2 to recommend scrapping MIPS and replacing MIPS with a new clinician value-based purchasing program, called the Voluntary Value Program (VVP), and that proposal was...
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