HealthLeaders Media June 15, 2017
An alternative construct for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System would withhold a portion of payments for clinicians that they would get back based on their performance on quality metrics.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission unveiled its June report on Medicare and the healthcare delivery system today and its recommendations, should they be enacted, would represent a big shift in how Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and its advanced alternative payment models (A-APMs) would be administered by changing incentives in both programs. The group also recommended big changes in payments for post-acute care.
MIPS and A-APMs
The programs were created in the 2015 “doc-fix” law, otherwise known as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which repealed the...
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