Modern Healthcare February 1, 2018
Some clinicians say they’re not confident a new set of measures will accurately track if they are saving Medicare money.
This past summer the CMS piloted eight new measures under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. They track cost data for eight procedures and medical conditions including percutaneous coronary intervention, knee arthroplasty, cataract removal, lower limb revascularization, colonoscopy, intracranial hemorrhage and pneumonia.
As part of the pilot, the CMS created reports for around 17,000 medical practices based on claims data from June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017 and surveyed those practices about the accuracy of the results. The CMS will use those measures next year to judge payments for 2021. Cost saving will account for 30% of a provider’s MIPS...
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