Practices will see another ‘piddly’ MIPS payment, docs say at MGMA meeting

Fierce Healthcare October 14, 2019
Joanne Finnegan

NEW ORLEANS—Even the highest-performing physicians and practices will see a “piddly” payment adjustment under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

Doctors who scored the maximum 100 points under MIPS will end up with a payment adjustment in the 1.6% range in 2020, according to an estimate from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).

While MIPS is burdensome to practices, participants will get a payment increase that Drew Voytal, an associate director for government affairs at the MGMA, called “piddly” and “miniscule”—one which the MGMA estimates will amount to around just 1.6%.

At the same time, over 76% of medical group practices in an MGMA survey said MIPS is “incredibly burdensome,” Voytal told an audience at the group’s annual conference in...

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