RevCycle Intelligence October 3, 2018
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...