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Physicians should stay the course until new MIPS program takes effect
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Physicians need to “keep running on the treadmill” with regard to existing CMS quality programs, until the new, combined Merit-Based Incentive Payment System begins in 2019, a speaker here said. Under the Medicare Access and CHIP Authorization Act of 2015, PQRS, Meaningful Use and the Value-Based Payment Modifier programs will be merged into the new MIPS program.