Table 2.
Overview of study questions and findings from interviews
| Perspectives: advantages of MIPS | → | Related practice changes | → | Suggestions for program administrators |
| Encouraging development of systems for quality measurement, improvement, and reporting | → | Technology: Acquiring EHR, “tweaking” EHR, buying new equipment (e.g., retinal camera) | ||
| Staffing: Hiring new personnel or giving new tasks to existing personnel | ||||
| Perspectives: disadvantages of MIPS | → | Related practice changes | → | Suggestions for program administrators |
| Burdens of participation are too great | → | Structural practice changes (joining larger practice; selling practice) | → | Simplify the program and reduce administrative burdens |
| ٠ Decreased provider satisfaction | ||||
| ٠ Diversion of limited resources away from direct patient care | ||||
| Practices serving vulnerable patients may be at risk for penalties | → | → | → | Protect practices serving the most vulnerable patients |
| Improve communication between program administrators and patients | ||||