Read About the Differences in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Performance of Clinicians in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in 2018

  The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a pay-for-performance system for clinicians under the Medicare Quality Payment Program designed to reward clinicians for providing higher quality of care and lower costs. This study from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis compared clinicians’ MIPS performance in 2018 based on their practice location, size, and minority population proportion.