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...
by Jim Tate | Oct 4, 2017 | MIPS
The MACRA/MIPS program is complex enough without having to decide what is real and what is not. I recently wrote a post entitled “Fake News – MIPS Style” and in the past week I have come across additional examples of misleading information that only serves to muddy...
by Jim Tate | Sep 26, 2017 | MIPS
I sure hear a lot about fake news these days. In the world of politics, we hear a constant chant: “This is fake, that is fake, everything is fake”. I guess it is in the eye of the beholder as to what is true. There is the whole truth, the partial truth, misstatements...
by Jim Tate | Sep 19, 2017 | MIPS
There is less than two weeks left on the clock. October 2nd is coming fast and brings the beginning of the last 90-day MIPS performance period for 2017. If plans have not already been made then next week is the last opportunity you will have to decide what to do if...
