The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Thursday voted to recommend getting rid of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System under MACRA. The commission voted 14-2 to get rid of MIPS and replace it ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission wants to scrap the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. During a Thursday morning meeting, almost all of the members of MedPAC said MIPS, the new Medicare ...

The Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) unfairly penalizes physicians caring for a patient population with more complex medical needs, according to a study in JAMA Network. MIPS, the ...

Although more clinicians who participated in year two of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System will receive a bonus compared to year one, there are less participants overall, the CMS announced ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare policy, has come out strongly against the merit-based incentive system for physician payment and bonuses. MedPAC wants ...

In a recent post, we described nuances in MIPS scoring that can ultimately lead to discrepancies between frequently referenced (e.g., ±4% in 2017 and ±5% in 2018) and actual professional fee ...

CMS recently disclosed it made an error when processing quality scores for physicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. 1. CMS recently ...

WASHINGTON — Members of an influential federal advisory panel sparred here today over a recommendation that would direct Medicare to scrap its fledgling Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and ...