Fierce Healthcare February 25, 2020
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma laid out a vision for making Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting completely electronic.
The Trump administration wants to make it easier for doctors to report quality progress on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) by moving to a completely electronic reporting system.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma laid out her vision for a completely electronic system for MIPS during a speech Tuesday at the CMS Quality Conference in Baltimore. She said that using electronic health records (EHRs) to report quality progress can ease providers’ administrative burden, but full implementation could take several years.
“Imagine a world in which clinicians don’t have to lift a finger—where quality...