Healthcare Informatics February 21, 2018
Last year, soon after the first reporting period began for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015’s (MACRA’s) Quality Payment Program (QPP), one prominent healthcare consultant, Rita Numerof, Ph.D., attested that QPP reporting measures don’t create an even playing field for participating clinicians. At the time, she specifically took issue with “the validity and accuracy of MIPS [the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System] reporting, and the amount of bureaucracy associated with it.”
Numerof, the co-founder and president of St. Louis-based consulting firm Numerof & Associates, recently was a guest on the Healthcare Informatics podcast, and reiterated her concerns with MACRA/MIPS, noting that there are “fundamental issues in the design and the philosophy behind the program.”
She says, “I’m concerned...
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