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 reimbursement.
MedPAC Chairman Francis "Jay" Crosson of Palo Alto, California, said he wished the commission had made its recommendation sooner, but it had...
There is disagreement over what to replace it with.
MedPAC members are concerned that MIPS will not achieve its desired goals. The flexibility of the program, various options for how physicians can report measures and the broad exemptions for certain types of clinicians, has made it complex. There are also statistical challenges that...