by Jim Tate | Nov 28, 2017 | MIPS
One of my favorite books is The Big Short by Michael Lewis. It was eventually made into a movie by the same name and gives a clear view of the housing bubble that burst 10 years ago and pushed the US economy into the Great Recession. What fascinates me was the ability...
by Jim Tate | Nov 9, 2017 | MIPS
This morning when I googled “MIPS timeline” I got 174,000 results. There sure are lots of pretty charts and colorful graphs out there. Most of them will let you know when this will happen and when that will occur. When does the definition of Eligible Clinicians...
by Jim Tate | Nov 6, 2017 | MIPS
Several weeks ago I wrote a post entitled “MIPS and Medicare Part B Drugs – Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop”. Late last week the other shoe hit the floor with the release of the Final Rule. The issue at hand is whether an Eligible Clinician’s (EC) MIPS score would...
by Jim Tate | Oct 18, 2017 | MIPS
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it”. I’m pretty sure Mark Twain said that. We might as well say “Everybody talks about MIPS, but nobody does anything about it”. Well, hardly anybody. I hear lots of MIPS discussion about avoiding...
by Jim Tate | Oct 10, 2017 | MIPS
We are whiling away the time today on a visit to the piedmont of North Carolina. Even though it is October it feels like the dog days of August. Humidity off the charts and I don’t even want to look at the temperature. What’s a poor boy to do? I barely have the...
