Physician organizations were mostly thrilled when Congress passed the "doc fix" legislation in April, replacing the despised Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS. Now, things are getting, um, fun.
"MIPS is making everything more complicated," said Tom Lee, founder and CEO of SA Ignite, a provider of cloud-based back-office automation for healthcare providers in pay-for-performance reimbursement programs. Lee has called his Chicago-based company the TurboTax for Meaningful Use.
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