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WASHINGTON — Members of an influential federal advisory panel sparred here today over a recommendation that would direct Medicare to scrap its fledgling Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and instead implement a new approach for tying reimbursement to judgements about value of care.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted 14 to 2 in favor of telling Congress to do away with MIPS and moving to what the panel termed a voluntary value program. In this proposed arrangement, physicians could opt to join groups and then have their performance judged as part of this cohort.