RevCycle Intelligence March 8, 2018
Physicians and industry experts called for a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) repeal, arguing quality measure choice and its financial incentives do not promote better patient care.
As over 400,000 eligible clinicians prepare to submit data to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) by the end of March, industry experts are urging policymakers and HHS officials to reconsider and even repeal MACRA’s most popular payment track.
In a recent Health Affairs blogpost, industry experts urged healthcare leaders to repeal MIPS because the program’s performance evaluation methodology and financial incentives will not help the program to achieve its goals of improving patient care and providing information to help patients chose high-value providers.
The authors primarily hailed from the Brookings Institution, but...