MedPage Today February 14, 2018
Still in the works: Determining real-time eligibility
WASHINGTON — Physicians who are anxious about year 2 of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) got some relief from a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) official, but some of the agency’s answers were still pretty fuzzy.
“We’d like to get to a place where we can determine real-time eligibility, but we’re not there yet,” said Kate Goodrich, MD, MHS, director and chief medical officer for the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS, at the American Medical Association National Advocacy Conference here.
“We understand people need to plan … make business decisions if [they’re] eligible,” she added.
MedPage Today recently reported on clinician complaints that they can’t tell whether...