Only 20 percent of physicians reported that they are very or somewhat familiar with MACRA, according to a recent survey from the Physicians Foundation and Merritt Hawkins, and the majority of respondents...
New MACRA flexibilities for the first performance year of the program may help some providers ease into new value-based reimbursement programs, but the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) recently...
Eligible clinicians will be able to select their own pace for MACRA attestation to ensure all participants can succeed under new value-based reimbursement programs, CMS announced.
On its official blog,...
Representatives from the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee have penned a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell calling for more flexibilities with MACRA...
Proposed patient relationship codes that will be used under MACRA to measure appropriate resource use and determine value-based reimbursement adjustments may cause more confusion for providers and...
While a final rule on MACRA implementation has yet to be issued, some providers are growing concerned that the value-based care models in the legislation could significantly burden small physician...
With a final rule on implementing MACRA coming in the next couple of months, some accountable care organizations (ACOs) have started to analyze new value-based reimbursement structures under the proposed...
Will MACRA be the answer to tying reimbursements to quality care or will it be just end up as another doc fix, like those under the Sustainable Growth Rate program?
A recent National Center for Policy...
Cerner has named Adventist Health System's Jeff Hurst to oversee its revenue cycle management division, the company announced Tuesday. Hurst, who currently serves as Florida Hospital's Senior...
Despite the significance of its provisions, many healthcare providers are still unaware of MACRA and the federal government's plans to eliminate the sustainable growth rate and offer new alternative...
As officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sift through over 3,800 comments on the proposed rule for MACRA implementation, the Healthcare Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3)...
As the comment period for the proposed Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) came to a close earlier this week, the American Medical Association (AMA) expressed some concern with MACRA...
While accountable care organizations (ACOs) are popular and effective ways to implement value-based care, many ACOs are still facing significant challenges with managing risk and healthcare costs as the...
On May 25, American Medical Group Association (AMGA) launched a resource to help its members prepare for MACRA implementation as well as all risk-based payment systems.
“We are making it our...
As part of its STEPS Forward program, the American Medical Association (AMA) has released eight new educational modules to support healthcare providers with the transition to value-based care, reported...
The newly-proposed MACRA implementation rule establishes the Quality Payment Program and shines a spotlight on alternative payment models for Medicare. Alternative payment models (APMs) are a central...
Driven by the Affordable Care Act, the implementation of Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is expected to significantly impact the nation's healthcare system. Already, many...
In some cases, definitions for terms and acronyms related to healthcare revenue cycle management can come across as fairly straightforward. Other times, they can sound more like a foreign language. A...
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 has many parts tied to Medicare and other federal health plan beneficiaries, but first and foremost it is a bill that brings an end to the sustainable growth rate and a beginning to...
The final rule for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) — and its provisions for value-based care and reimbursement — is now in the hands of the...
