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 ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) was created as a catalyst for transforming the healthcare system from fee for service to pay for value. To accomplish that, MACRA ...

While the phrase “return to normal” is used in many different contexts, interestingly, it can now also be applied to the maximum payment adjustments that clinicians receive through the Merit-based ...

Providers pushed back on CMS' plans to overhaul the Quality Payment Program with a new push toward value-based arrangements. They said it is not ready to implement and eventually replace the ...

A Medicare pay-for-performance program may have done more harm than good, a new study finds—results that don’t bode well for the future success of MIPS. Researchers said a Medicare program designed to ...

Quality measurement in federal health care programs has been around since at least 2007, when CMS introduced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the fifth consecutive year, McKesson has received approval from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the Merit-based Incentive ...

The VVP involves gutting the MIPS and replacing it with a design that includes an across-the-board withhold for all fee schedule payments. (In the past, MedPAC's staff suggested a 2% withhold as an ...