MACRA’s Quality Payment Program includes two tracks. Which pair is correct?

MACRA’s Quality Payment Program includes two tracks. Which pair is correct?

• A. MIPS and APM
• B. MIPS and VBP
• C. APMs and SGR
• D. QPP and MACRA

Answer: (A)

Under MACRA, the Quality Payment Program offers two tracks: MIPS and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). The MIPS track uses a single composite score derived from performance categories to determine payment adjustments. The APM track is for clinicians who participate in qualifying value-based models and can receive incentives through a different path, often with less reporting burden. The other options don’t fit because value-based purchasing isn’t a separate QPP track, SGR was the old Medicare pay formula and isn’t a QPP track, and QPP/MACRA are names of the program and law, not tracks. So the pair MIPS and APM is correct.

Under MACRA, the Quality Payment Program offers two tracks: MIPS and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). The MIPS track uses a single composite score derived from performance categories to determine payment adjustments. The APM track is for clinicians who participate in qualifying value-based models and can receive incentives through a different path, often with less reporting burden. The other options don’t fit because value-based purchasing isn’t a separate QPP track, SGR was the old Medicare pay formula and isn’t a QPP track, and QPP/MACRA are names of the program and law, not tracks. So the pair MIPS and APM is correct.