The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) needs to be reimagined get back on track and to live up to its promise to incentivize value-based care. The Medicare Access and CHIP ...

With the Merit-Based Incentive System and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the federal government is beginning to harmonize programs to simplify reporting, decrease the number of ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has suggested ending the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is one of the payment tracks in MACRA. Nearly all members of MedPAC backed ...

The comment period on CMS' request for information regarding new value-oriented Medicare payment options under MACRA for physicians and other health professionals has been extended until November 17.

MIPS will subsume the Physician Quality Reporting System, the Value-based Payment Modifier and the Medicare Electronic Health Record incentive program for eligible providers. These payment adjustments ...

Responding to continuing complaints that its Medicare physician payment system is too complicated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to make further changes this year. One of those ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare policy, has come out strongly against the merit-based incentive system for physician payment and bonuses. MedPAC wants ...

The first major Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act impact most providers will feel comes from the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System program. MIPS rolls up and replaces the meaningful use, ...

We surveyed a national sample of internal medicine physicians in March–May 2017 to explore their beliefs about the newly implemented Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Respondents believed ...

On April 16, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 2, the "Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015" (MACRA), a bipartisan effort to reform the Medicare payment policy for physician ...