Expect Big MIPS Changes Under 2019 Quality-Reporting Proposals

The agency’s proposed changes to the Quality Payment Program drew a mixed response from industry stakeholders.

Major changes are in store for the Merit-based Inventive Payment System (MIPS) in 2019, as the Trump administration pushes to reduce the recordkeeping burden shouldered by clinicians.

In a slate of proposals released late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlined 10 new quality measures it would like to add to the MIPS program, plus dozens it wants to remove. The measures on the chopping block are process-based items clinicians have identified as “low-value or low-priority,” CMS said.

The agency also proposed changes to the MIPS “promoting interoperability” performance category. The changes are designed to improve interoperability of electronic health...