Fierce Healthcare January 12, 2018
Fix MIPS, don’t get rid of, physician groups say in reaction to MedPAC vote.
As much as they dislike aspects of MIPS, two major physician groups disagree with a vote by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday to replace the Medicare payment system that’s been in place for just over a year.
Both the Medical Group Management Association and the American Medical Association said they are not ready to abandon the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, the program track under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) that covers most physicians. The groups prefer to fix what they have.
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