In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a number of changes to its Quality Payment Program and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Under existing MIPS ...

Physician practices waiting to see the specific quality measures they will use under the new Medicare payment system got a clearer picture yesterday. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

First, under MIPS, clinicians choose six measures from a set of several hundred predominately process measures to determine their quality scores. To include all or most medical and surgical ...

Learning the Best Ways to Earn MIPS Scoring: Different Points, Based on How You Sent in Your Data Should You Bother to Participate in MIPS? Weigh the Factors Learning the Best Ways to Earn The ...

The American College of Physicians, responding to provider concerns about current performance measurement policies, published an analysis of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System in the New England ...

New research from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute found that most Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality measures designated as "topped out" by the Centers for Medicare & ...

For the second year of the quality payment program under MACRA, cost performance will form 10 percent of the merit-based incentive system score in how clinicians are paid. Quality performance will ...

Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira penned a column for his newsletter on the recently developed American Society of Anesthesiologists Qualified Clinical Data Registries ...

Even as hundreds of thousands of physicians spend many hours reporting to Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a new study in JAMA finds that the program's quality scores don't ...

Urologists, oncologists, or other specialty physicians should not be judged solely by the same quality measures used by internists when it comes to reporting quality data to CMS, most would agree.