Time and Financial Costs for Physician Practices to Participate in the Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a major Medicare value-based purchasing program, influencing payment for more than 1 million clinicians annually. There is a growing concern that MIPS increases administrative burden, and little is known about what it costs physician practices to participate in the program.

Objective

To examine the costs for independent physician practices to participate in MIPS in 2019.

Design setting and participants

This qualitative study identified and interviewed leaders of physician practices participating in the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) MIPS program, including those in MIPS alternative payment models. Time required and financial costs were calculated from responses to in-depth, semistructured

SUBMITTER: Khullar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796897 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature