The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) allows the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, to define a low-volume threshold for the purpose of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) conducted a formal vote that recommend repealing and replacing CMS’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The Medicare Payment Advisory ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Momentum appeared to be growing on Thursday for a proposal from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to get rid of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for ...

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 ...