In the next couple of years, my goal is to become a healthcare administrator. Therefore, when I one day meet that goal I want to have advanced knowledge and experience with benchmarking in terms of quality. For instance, measuring quality over volume is just starting to make its way to our healthcare organizations. In fact, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid has designed a program called MIPS, which is a mandatory reporting requirement that will measure physician quality (CMS, n.d.). MIPS is the future of healthcare and that is why I believe this benchmarking data is the most crucial to understand. Consequently, MIPS has a scoring level of four main categories: quality, advancing care information, clinical practice improvement activities,
