Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Recommends Eliminating The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

In its March 2018 report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that the Medicare program eliminate the recently launched merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS). To replace MIPS, MedPAC recommended that Congress finalize and implement the Voluntary Value Program (VVP), a voluntary program centered on population-based outcomes.

MedPAC believes that the current MIPS structure, which has already launched the initial data collection phase, will not be able to differentiate which clinical professionals provide higher or lower value services to Medicare beneficiaries. MIPS allows health care professionals to report only those areas where they already have high . . .