RevCycle Intelligence October 3, 2018
Jacqueline LaPointe

Medical practice leaders were particularly dissatisfied with the Quality Payment Program’s reporting requirements, scoring method, feedback, and lack of measures.

For the second year in a row, medical practice leaders said the Quality Payment Program was their top regulatory burden in 2018.

Eighty-percent of the 426 group practice leaders recently surveyed by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) cited the Quality Payment Program and its two payment tracks – the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Model (Advanced APM) pathway – as either very or extremely burdensome.

About 82 percent of medical practice leaders in the previous year’s survey also said the Quality Payment Program, along with MIPS and Advanced APMs, were a significant burden on their...

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