Healthcare Economist July 15, 2018
Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) aims to link physician quality of care to their reimbursement. At first glance, paying more to high quality physicians seems like a great idea. However, a paper by Liao et al. (2018) surveys physicians from a large national sample maintained by the American College of Physicians (ACP). They find some key concerns physicians have over MIPS:
Respondents reported believing that MIPS would encourage behaviors that could represent unintended consequences (results not shown). The majority believed that it would encourage physicians to “focus on aspects of care being measured to the detriment of other unmeasured aspects of...
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