The spirit of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System—bringing quality and cost accountability to Medicare fee-for-service at national scale—is worth preserving. The Biden administration faces a ...

Over the past decade and a half, CMS introduced various performance-based payment models that transformed into today’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Under MIPS, clinicians receive ...

While many agree that MIPS is flawed, some—including the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, and the Alliance of Specialty Medicine —have said that the program can be ...

WASHINGTON -- The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted 14-2 to in favor of killing the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and replacing it with an alternative model of ...

The main problem with the MIPS program, as MedPAC's analysts see it, is that MIPS won't achieve the policy goals that it's designed to achieve. The flexibility of the program -- the various options ...

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 ...

In October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded the archive for doctors and clinicians (DAC) on the provider data catalog (PDC) to provide access to merit-based incentive ...

SAN DIMAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has formally released group feedback for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is meant to ...

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 ...