Tepid Reactions to Medicare Fee Schedule Proposal – Medical groups criticize data reporting period, Part B changes

MedPage Today July 13, 2018
Joyce Frieden

WASHINGTON — Initial reaction to Medicare’s proposed 2019 physician fee schedule — released with great fanfare Thursday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — appears to be lukewarm at best.

“MGMA [the Medical Group Management Association] is disappointed that CMS plans to continue its burdensome 365-day MIPS [Merit-Based Incentive Payment System] quality reporting policy rather than 90 consecutive days,” Anders Gilberg, the association’s senior vice president for government affairs, said in a statement. “Reducing the reporting burden would allow more physicians to participate in MIPS and focus the program on rewarding quality care rather than quality reporting. Requiring medical groups to submit excessive amounts of data to the government has little impact on the quality of care...

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