Under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians (EC) are to report quality and cost data to CMS starting this year (2017). This data will be used to determine Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) adjustments (positive or negative) in 2019. Because 2017 has been designated as a “transition” year, the amount of reporting required of ECs is minimal.
Medicare’s nascent value-based measurement system may not be a good indicator of which doctors provide high-quality medical care.
On December 13,CMS released the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measure documents for 2014. You are advised that some of these measures may be different from the PQRS measure documents of prior years.
