Assignment: Participating in MIPS.
Assignment: Participating in MIPS.
Health care quality and health care policy are deeply intertwined. Not all health care providers agree on the reach and control of government entities when it comes to health care delivery and evaluation of quality.
Place yourself in the role of a medical practice administrator. You must take a position for or against participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Audience: Physicians within your practice
Briefly summarize the MIPS.
In a minimum of 250 words, provide your rationale for participating or not participating in MIPS.
In a separate paragraph, explain why your practice should align clinical practice standards to quality standards set forth by governing entities like CMS.
If you chose not to participate in MIPS, explain why it is still important to align with these standards.
Your explanation should include more depth beyond ”because our patients deserve quality care.”
Optional: you may include details of MIPS quality measures to illustrate your persuasive argument.
APA style requirements: Title and reference pages, two references, in-text citations as appropriate.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.