Physicians Practice February 5, 2018
Physician practices have found plenty to be unhappy about in the CMS’ Quality Payment Program. The overall complexity of the Merit-Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS) is staggering, because it requires practices to determine which quality and improvement activities to focus on. But the technology-related segment of MIPS, Advancing Care Information (ACI), which makes up 25 percent of the overall score, has been a smoother transition, because there has been a logical progression from Meaningful Use (MU), consultants and providers say.
“If you have been successful in MU, ACI should not really be a challenge for you,” says Dan Golder, MD, a principal with Chicago-based healthcare IT consulting firm, Impact Advisors LLC. “MIPS as a whole is another whole story,” Golder...
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