The 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Participation, Performance, and Payment Across Specialties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) incorporates financial incentives and penalties intended to drive clinicians towards value-based purchasing, including alternative payment models (APMs). Newly available Medicare-approved qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs) offer specialty-specific quality measures for clinician reporting, yet their impact on clinician performance and payment adjustments remains unknown.

Objectives

We sought to characterize clinician participation, performance, and payment adjustments in the MIPS program across specialties, with a focus on clinician use of QCDRs.

Research design

We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the 2018 MIPS program.

Results

During the 2018 performance year, 558,296 clinicians participa

SUBMITTER: Gettel CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820355 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature