MedPage Today January 18, 2018
Docs aren’t sure, and CMS isn’t helping
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expected to exempt more than half a million clinicians from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2018, the agency has yet to tell clinicians who is in and who is out of the program.
MIPS is one of two payment vehicles created as a result of the the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which replaced the almost universally despised Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula.
For a quality reporting program such as MIPS to work, the government needs to follow its own rules, Anders Gilberg, senior vice president of government affairs for the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) based here, told MedPage...
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