Radiology Business April 4, 2024
New research lends further weight to what many already know: The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System places radiologists at a disadvantage compared to other medical specialties.
Medicare launched the payment program in 2017 to reward physicians for delivering quality care and lowering costs. However, radiologists have faced challenges since then, with too few measures applying to the specialty while others are no longer usable, experts wrote Wednesday in AJR [1].
New research from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute further underlines the problem. In 2021, there were only nine available MIPS measures for diagnostic radiology versus 65 in family medicine. Physicians in radiology-only practices scored “significantly lower” in MIPS when compared to others working in doc groups where rads were...
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