Last week, APMA responded to direct bipartisan outreach from the GOP and Democratic Doctors Caucus for recommendations to modernize the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and improve future Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) models. APMA focused its comments on supporting the American Medical Association's Data-Driven Performance Payment System (DPPS) proposal, which would replace key elements of MIPS. These changes would help to stabilize Medicare physician payments; mitigate the disproportionate impact of penalties on small, solo, and rural practitioners to improve patient access; and reduce physician compliance and burden while still holding providers accountable for the care they provide.

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