Merit Based Incentive Payment System

AMA Voices Concerns Over MACRA Implementation, MIPS, APMs

by Jacqueline LaPointe

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...

How MACRA, MIPS Will Impact Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs

by Catherine Sampson

MACRA means different things to various types of healthcare providers, such as critical access hospitals, rural health clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Although the new MACRA framework...

What We Know About Value-Based Care Under MACRA, MIPS, APMs

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

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...

CMS Requests Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Discussion

by Jacqueline DiChiara

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will publish a proposed rule tomorrow (CMS-3321-NC2) requesting information about the implementation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System...