HIT Consultant December 12, 2024
Erin Crum, Sr. Director of Quality Strategy and Innovation, The US Oncology Network and McKesson

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) as part of its ongoing revisions to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program, which was established in 2017 to encourage ongoing and consistent quality, efficiency, and improvement in medical practices. The MVP framework was designed to ease the burden imposed on clinicians and their administrators who participate in the MIPS program. Traditionally, MIPS scores have been calculated based on the evaluation of four factors: Quality, Cost, Interoperability, and Improvement.1

However, CMS recently recognized that the program was not working as originally intended as clinicians were reporting on the measures that awarded the most points, rather than those that might be more relevant to their specialty....

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