Fierce Healthcare December 8, 2017
MedPAC commissioners were told to move ahead quickly if they want to move ahead and recommend scrapping MIPS.
If the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) wants to replace the current Medicare payment system for physicians, they should move ahead quickly with that recommendation.
At a meeting this week, MedPAC staff told commission members to take action before physicians become entrenched in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which began this year. In a presentation (PDF) to MedPAC commissioners, staff called MIPS “burdensome and inequitable.”
“The time for action is now before there is an established constituency of clinicians getting very high positive adjustments,” MedPAC staff member Kate Bloniarz told the commissioners in the presentation. MedPAC serves an advisory role...
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