Fierce Healthcare November 8, 2018
Few doctors got penalized in the first year of MIPS, but payment adjustments were low.
Most doctors and other clinicians did OK in the first year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
More than 90% of the doctors and clinicians who participated in MIPS will receive a pay bump based on their performance in 2017, said CMS administrator Seema Verma in a blog post about the program implemented under MACRA in which clinicians receive either a positive, negative or neutral payment adjustment based on their performance.
However, it won’t be much.
Even those with the highest performance scores only earned a 1.88% positive adjustment. That left many physicians disheartened. At last month’s Medical Group Management annual conference, one official...
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