The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a metric established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), plays a critical role in determining reimbursement rates for healthcare providers. It evaluates physicians based on their performance in four key categories: quality, cost, improvement activities, and promoting interoperability. In 2025, several important changes affect MIPS reporting. Read more…
MACRA
MACRA: A Reality Affecting Us Sooner Than We Think
MACRA is born out of good intentions, but is fraught with implementation challenges. Anyone would think of MACRA’s implementation as a monumental task, when reading the final rule for it, which was issued by CMS on October 14. The document is indeed full of legal intricacies. The good news is that MACRA will pay physicians Read more…