Primary Care Physicians in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): a Qualitative Investigation of Participants' Experiences, Self-Reported Practice Changes, and Suggestions for Program Administrators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While both administrators of pay-for-performance programs and practicing physicians strive to improve healthcare quality, they sometimes disagree on the best approach. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 mandated the creation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a program that incentivizes more than 700,000 physician participants to report on four domains of care, including healthcare quality. While MIPS performance scores were recently released, little is known about how primary care physicians (PCPs) and their practices are being affected by the program and what actions they are taking in response to MIPS.

Objectives

To (1) describe PCP perspectives and self-reported practice changes related to quality measurement under MIPS a

SUBMITTER: Berdahl CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816727 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature