And now a another article discussing the
recommendation by MedPAC to repeal and replace
MIPS. The take away, I believe, from the MedPAC
report is as follows. "The commission proposes
eliminating the current set of MIPS measures and
instead relying on population-based outcome
measures, such as preventing hospital admissions
or patient experience. The proposed outcome
measures would be calculated from claims or
surveys and therefore would not require
burdensome clinician reporting, the report said".

After reading this second article, I then went
onto the APMA website and well as my EMR vendor's
site to see how many webinars were created on
MIPS, not to mention PQRS and Meaningful Use and
could only think of the thousands upon thousands
of hours people put into developing webinars,
lectures, writing papers and developing software
programs to track, as the commission stated,
“burdensome clinician reporting”. What a waste of
time from one’s life now that the commission
proposes eliminating the current set of MIPS
measures. Not to mention all the money that came
from APMA dues and physician’s own pockets to pay
for all of this.

I posted a response to the first article on this
forum in July and part of my response is as
follows….

This SHOULD initiate a swift and strong response
from the AMA, APMA, and AOA, and hold someone
accountable for this mess. The physician members
of Congress should also be contacted to
investigate this enormous waste of taxpayer’s
money.

Now almost three months later, still no response
from our national associations, just more and
more webinars on how to meet these meaningless
measures.

Ron Freireich, DPM, Cleveland, OH