MedPage Today January 11, 2018
Commission votes 14-2 to fold Merit-based Incentive Payment System.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted 14-2 to in favor of killing the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and replacing it with an alternative model of reimbursement on Thursday.
While the numbers appear to signal a strong consensus for the proposed recommendations, a handful of members who voted to nix the program expressed hesitation.
“I’m not afraid to make an unpopular decision, but I want to make sure we do something constructive,” that sends the right message and is headed in “the right direction,” said Commissioner Warner Thomas, of Ochsner Health System in New Orleans.
Thomas worried that if commissioners aren’t careful, the alternative model — the Voluntary Value...
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