MedPage Today December 7, 2017
Momentum appeared to be growing on Thursday for a proposal from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to get rid of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for reimbursing physicians who see Medicare patients.
“We need to act on this now,” MedPAC staff member Kate Bloniarz told the commissioners. She added that clinicians will start reporting their quality data this year for reimbursement in 2019. “The longer the payments go out, the more there will be an established [group] of clinicians receiving really high payment adjustments who will resist changes to the program.”
MIPS, which was enacted as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), combines parts of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Value-based Payment...
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