Healthcare stakeholders looking to develop their own alternative payment models for HHS implementation should look to new guidance before submitting their applications to the Physician-Focused Payment...
Rural and small practices fared worse than their large peers in MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017, new research shows.
Nearly one in five small practices received a...
Approximately 93 percent of eligible clinicians participating in MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017 earned a positive payment adjustment, CMS Administrator Seema Verma...
The final 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule contained a number of changes to evaluation and management (E/M) payment rates, site-neutral payments, and remote patient monitoring coverage....
The healthcare industry is moving beyond a “sick care” system and shifting to chronic disease prevention to lower costs and improve quality. However, the healthcare payment system is just...
Virtual groups enable independent physicians and clinicians in small practices to participate in Medicare’s historic push to transition to value-based reimbursement: the Quality Payment...
For the second year in a row, medical practice leaders said the Quality Payment Program was their top regulatory burden in 2018.
Eighty-percent of the 426 group practice leaders recently surveyed by...
CMS recently announced that it is extending the targeted review deadline for 2017 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance feedback after the federal agency identified three errors with...
Eligible clinicians can avoid a financial penalty under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2020 by focusing their reporting on one of three performance categories: Quality, Improvement...
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently expressed their concerns with proposed Quality Payment Program changes, arguing the potential implementation policies for the third year of the...
While providers commend CMS for replacing the Sustainable Growth Rate with MACRA and its Quality Payment Program, many still have some reservations about the Medicare program.
After completing the...
CMS recently proposed several changes to Medicare physician payments and MACRA’s Quality Payment Program to reduce medical billing and administrative burden. But initial reactions from medical...
CMS recently proposed major changes to Medicare physician payments and the Quality Payment Program to reduce the administrative burden of medical billing.
The potential changes in the Medicare...
Policymakers and industry groups are calling on CMS to include more Medicare providers in MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Five members of Congress, all of whom are part of...
Financial challenges plaguing small and rural practices under legacy Medicare value-based purchasing programs are likely to persistent under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), the...
CMS recently announced that it advanced a demonstration that would waive Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirements for eligible clinicians participating in at-risk Medicare Advantage...
Eleven industry groups are urging CMS to include Medicare Advantage (MA) in MACRA as soon as possible to provide the same incentives to eligible clinicians in risk-based MA models as those offered to...
Approximately 91 percent of all eligible clinicians participated in 2017 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting, exceeding the CMS goal of 90 percent participation in the first year of...
Almost 50 provider groups are calling on CMS to reduce the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting period from a full calendar to a minimum of 90 days during the 2018 performance...
The American College of Physicians (ACP) is calling for a “time-out” to assess and improve Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality measures after finding few of the measures...
