AHA Finds Four Changes to MIPS as Part of MACRA executions

Among the several suggestions the American Hospital Association (AHA) has made regarding MACRA implementation, it is particularly seeking 4 broad changes to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) with hospital-based physicians in mind.

In written testimony submitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, AHA spelled its 4 suggestions for MIPS implementation.

First, it suggests that MIPS measures align with national priority areas, specifically those involves in the 2015 report by the National Academy of Medicine.

Second, it has called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a MIPS participation choice for hospital-based physicians.

Third, the agency has sought rigorous risk adjustment to ensure that physicians treating sufferers with complex health conditions are capable to perform well under MIPS.

Fourth, AHA has suggested that CMS align meaningful use needs for both physicians and hospitals in light of the replacement of meaningful use under MIPS with the advancing care information performance category.