Fierce Healthcare

MIPS may not be the way to reduce hospital readmissions by primary care doctors

While the government’s efforts to cut readmission rates by decreasing payments to hospitals seem to have worked, the same strategy may not be effective for primary care physicians. A study found there ...
Medscape

MIPS Quality Scores Don't Reflect Quality of Care: Study

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 ...
Business Insider

Aledade Accountable Care Organizations Improve Quality, Earn Perfect 2018 MIPS Performance Scores

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Aledade, Inc. announced the 2018 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores for its accountable care organizations (ACOs). In performance ...
Health Affairs

Congress Should Replace Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) on a strong bipartisan vote. In addition to repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that was used to set the ...