The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a Medicare value-based payment program designed to measure and incentivize quality. Researchers, policymakers, and clinicians have increasingly raised concerns that the program is overly burdensome and doesn’t accurately measure the quality of care delivered. A recent piece in Axios describes these and other concerns, and cites a JAMA study by CPPL faculty that found that physicians’ MIPS scores were inconsistently associated with patient outcomes. Read more here.
