Healthcare Innovation January 8, 2020
Rajiv Leventhal

98 percent of clinicians avoided a negative payment adjustment

Ninety-eight percent of clinicians participating in MIPS (the Merit-based Incentive Payment System) will receive a positive payment adjustment this year for their program performance in 2018.

CMS officials released the 2018 MIPS performance year data this week, noting that more clinicians will receive positive payment adjustments than in 2017, which was the first performance year of the program. This is a 5 point increase over the 2017 performance year, CMS officials pointed out, and that’s with an overall positive performance threshold for MIPS increase from 3 points in 2017 to 15 points in 2018, they added.

MACRA’s (the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015) Quality Payment Program (QPP) includes...

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Topics: CMS, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, MACRA, Medicare, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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