MedPAC To Vote Next Month On Proposal To Replace MIPS With Voluntary Approach

Congress' Medicare pay advisers plan to vote in January on a draft recommendation to eliminate and replace the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, which Commissioner David Grabowski said belongs in the “bad pay for performance hall of fame.” The draft recommendation discussed by the commissioners Thursday (Dec. 7) calls for Congress to eliminate MIPS and establish a new voluntary value program in fee-for-service Medicare in which clinicians could elect to be measured as part of a voluntary group which would allow...