Medicare value-based modifier program

Relatively few physicians will receive Medicare pay-for-performance bonuses under Medicare’s value-based modifier program in 2018. The question now is whether this is because of uninspiring performance or indifference to the program. Of the approximately 1.1 million clinicians who participate in Medicare, only two percent – 22,000 – will receive pay increases in 2018 based on their 2016 performance.  Those raises will range from 6.6 percent to 19.9 percent. Most doctors will receive neither bonuses nor penalties. And roughly 300,000 failed to submit the data required by the program.  In the past they would have been penalized for this failure but [...]