Nate C. Apathy is a postdoctoral fellow at the Perelman School of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, both at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At ...

PORTO, Portugal -- April 28, 2008-- MIPS Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, ...

WASHINGTON -- The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted 14-2 to in favor of killing the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and replacing it with an alternative model of ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - January 18, 2012 - MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile ...

A Medicare pay-for-performance program may have done more harm than good, a new study finds—results that don’t bode well for the future success of MIPS. Researchers said a Medicare program designed to ...

While the phrase “return to normal” is used in many different contexts, interestingly, it can now also be applied to the maximum payment adjustments that clinicians receive through the Merit-based ...

The Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) unfairly penalizes physicians caring for a patient population with more complex medical needs, according to a study in JAMA Network. MIPS, the ...

Commission staff members are recommending replacing MIPS with a new program called the Voluntary Value Program (VVP). Under the VVP proposal, all clinicians would see a portion of their fee schedule ...

SAN DIMAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has formally released group feedback for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is meant to ...

Medicare's fledgling Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) would incorporate the same drawbacks of earlier approaches for pegging physician reimbursement to judgments about quality of care, with ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the fifth consecutive year, McKesson has received approval from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the Merit-based Incentive ...