Specialists could face up to a 16 percent value-based incentive payment or penalty under MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2018 if a proposed rule to include Medicare...
Despite back the decision by CMS to cancel two bundled payment models and modify another, the American Hospital Association contends that the federal agency is moving a bit too quickly in shifting...
The Affordable Care Act isn’t the only health policy facing a call for repeal and replace. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recently urged HHS to repeal MACRA’s Merit-Based...
It’s good to have options when it comes to the clothes we wear, cars we drive, and things we do. But having too many options when it comes to quality reporting under MACRA’s Merit-Based...
Opportunities for specialists to join a Medicare alternative payment model are severely limited, especially for emergency medicine providers and audiologists, a recent Leavitt Partners report...
All 800 specialty physicians surveyed in June by Integra Connect stated that they have yet to fully comprehend MACRA, resulting in few specialists investing in the capabilities needed for MACRA...
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) recently opposed several proposed changes to the Quality Payment Program and its Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for the 2018 performance...
UPDATE: CMS released the complete proposed rule, which would cancel the Episode Payment Models and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model. The proposed rule would also decrease the number...
Medicare’s new value-based reimbursement program has topped the list of most burdensome regulations for healthcare providers, according to a new MGMA survey. About 82 percent of leaders from 750...
Since the Obama administration signed MACRA into law in 2015, healthcare providers have been attempting to understand the Quality Payment Program and its Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)....
While working in a small practice allows providers to really understand their patients and their community’s healthcare needs, it can also create unique healthcare revenue cycle management...
Two recent surveys indicated that healthcare provider and executive knowledge of and readiness for MACRA implementation and the Quality Payment Program are lacking despite the value-based reimbursement...
Healthcare industry organizations largely applauded the recently-released 2018 MACRA implementation proposal from CMS. The medical organizations commended the federal agency’s continuation of the...
CMS recently announced a proposed rule that would modify MACRA’s Quality Payment Program during its second performance year to ease provider burdens and continue to ramp up full participation in...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recently advised Congress to redesign MACRA’s newly-launched Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) by eliminating MIPS measures, replacing...
Eligible clinicians participating in appropriate alternative payment models under a Medicare Advantage plan should qualify for Advanced Alternative Payment Model (Advanced APM) incentive payments in...
About 87 percent of physician practices do not plan on hiring additional healthcare staff to help with MACRA implementation, a recent Physicians Practice survey showed.
The survey of over 1,000...
Healthcare providers need to restructure many aspects of their organization for successful MACRA implementation, including data analytics capabilities, financial risk assumption, stakeholder...
A coalition of ten healthcare industry groups recently urged HHS Secretary Tom Price to weigh risk-based Medicare Advantage alternative payment models the same as Advanced Alternative Payment Models...
Approximately 77 percent of practices of three or more clinicians are looking to purchase Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) compliance technology by the last quarter of 2017 to overcome MACRA...
