Modern Healthcare April 19, 2018
Several provider groups on Thursday criticized a value-based payment program created by MACRA for potentially causing harm to patients and setting physicians up to fail, which could spark millions of dollars in financial penalties.
Members of the American College of Physicians found that just 37% of the 86 quality measures in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System would actually improve the standard of care a patient received.
The review, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, was spurred by numerous physician complaints that the measures aren’t meaningful or that the administrative investments to comply with the program were going to waste, according to Dr. Catherine MacLean, lead author of the analysis and chief value medical officer at the Hospital...
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