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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has released its semiannual report on Medicare payment policy to Congress, which includes a recommendation to axe the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.
MedPAC said it decided MIPS should be eliminated after a two-year deliberative process.
“We first examined options for improving MIPS as it was implemented, and we provided constructive feedback as CMS established rules for the first two years of the program,” reads the report. “However, as we continued to explore the issue in several commission reports to the Congress, we determined that, from the commission’s perspective, the basic design of MIPS is fundamentally incompatible with the goals of a beneficiary-focused approach to quality measurement.”