Physicians Practice November 20, 2017
When Physicians Practice recently asked readers what they thought the impact of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) would be on their reimbursement in 2019, 62 percent of survey respondents said they weren’t sure and 28.8 percent said they expect it to be lower.
That level of uncertainty more than a year after the program — both part of the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP)—were first introduced could be seen as a troubling sign of the program’s overall complexity. But Michael Munger, MD, a family physician in Overland Park, Kan., and president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, sees the glass as half full. “The fact that we are hearing more physicians saying...