'Medicare Done Right,' explained: Ending MIPS and overhauling MACRA

Medical Economics sat down with Susan Dentzer, president and CEO of America's Physician Groups (APG), to discuss their latest report, "Medicare Done Right."

Dentzer explains why her organization is calling for an end to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and a broader overhaul MACRA — the 2015 law meant to drive value in Medicare physician payment.

"[MIPS] was a good start for its time," Dentzer said, "but it's already 10 years later, the world has changed a lot."

She argues that the system's individualized, check-the-box approach to quality hasn't delivered meaningful results and that real reform requires system-level accountability — not isolated improvements by individual physicians.

APG proposes we restore and strengthen incentives for joining advanced alternative payment models, and replace MIPS with approaches that reward coordinated, high-value care.