As much as they dislike aspects of MIPS, two major physician groups disagree with a vote by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday to replace the Medicare payment system that’s been in ...

Physicians now have two options for MIPS reporting: MIPS Value Pathways and the Alternative Payment Model Performance Pathway. Each MVP unit includes a subset of measures and activities that are more ...

MedPAC recommended the government replace MIPS because it is costly to physician practices and won’t lead to higher quality care, says the man who served as the commission’s director for 15 years. The ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published 2017 MIPS performance data from the first year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Implemented through the Medicare Access and ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window WASHINGTON -- Health policy experts sometimes battle for ...

On April 15, 2015, Congress and President Obama approved one of the most bipartisan and significant bills in the history of U.S. healthcare reform, the so-called “doc fix” bill, which repeals the ...

Becker’s tapped Tim Gronniger, senior vice president of strategy and development at Caravan Health, to answer this question. Mr. Gronniger served as the CMS deputy chief of staff under the Obama ...

Stakeholders in the Medicare value-based care world have without a doubt heard of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and alternative payment models (APMs).

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is accepting 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception and MIPS Promoting Interoperability ...

MACRA replaced the Sustainable Growth Rate with annual 0.5 percent payment increases for each of the next five years, and creates two tracks for physician payment after that. Under one track, MACRA ...