MedPAC Weighs Uncertainties Around MIPs, Alternative Pay Models In SGR Replacement

Congressional Medicare payment advisers raised questions about the alternative pay models and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System included in the law replacing the Sustainable Growth Rate, and one commissioner called for new payment models to be carefully and rigorously thought out in light of the failed SGR formula. The law that replaced the SGR set up two paths for doctors to receive payment updates -- alternative payment models and, for those who are not participating in those models, the Merit-Based...