In light of the unique challenges eligible clinicians in small and rural hospitals face, CMS developed special Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligibility and reporting requirements for the...
CMS anticipates notifying eligible clinicians about their Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participation status for 2017 via letter between late April through May, a recent email from the...
Although MACRA launched the Quality Payment Program on Jan. 1, 2017, a recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) report stated that many oncology practices still need to expand or improve...
For Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting success, eligible clinicians should report on quality measures that they know their practice already performs well on, advised Michael Abrams,...
Even though MACRA’s Quality Payment Program started on Jan. 1, approximately 64 percent of healthcare providers stated that they were either unprepared or very unprepared for MACRA implementation...
CMS is pushing back the start date for a number of its bundled payment programs in an effort to provide additional time to review and prepare for the initiatives.
In a notice posted in the Federal...
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) recently called on CMS Administrator Seema Verma to immediately release Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligibility notifications as well as...
From bundled payments to accountable care organizations, alternative payment models (APMs) are not new to healthcare providers. But the final MACRA implementation rule created a new subset of Advanced APMs, which could bring providers more...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently responded to potential MACRA implementation changes discussed at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) January meeting. The industry...
At HIMSS17, CMS leaders took the stage to ease provider concerns about the newly launched Quality Payment Program and its more popular value-based reimbursement track, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment...
CMS leaders at HIMSS17 were not shy with telling session attendees that they are currently in the first Quality Payment Program performance year. To help providers better understand the program, which...
With the Quality Payment Program set to launch on Jan. 1, 2017, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) provided CMS with several MACRA implementation suggestions, including transition year...
Providers can boost value-based reimbursement success by incorporating early palliative care into routine cancer care delivery, a new study in the American Journal of Managed Care indicated.
Researchers...
In October, CMS released the final MACRA implementation rule that will put the Quality Payment Program into action on Jan. 1, 2017. Under the new value-based reimbursement program, the federal agency...
Do not feel overwhelmed by the upcoming Quality Payment Program, a healthcare expert at CAPG, a non-profit trade association for accountable physician organizations, advised the projected 592,000 to...
In the week that the healthcare industry has had to digest the 2,400-page final MACRA implementation rule, many industry groups have come forward to express support for the rule, especially attestation...
New value-based reimbursement models under the Quality Payment Program will launch on Jan. 1, 2017, leaving a couple of months for providers to educate themselves on MACRA implementation rules and...
CMS released the long-awaited final rule on MACRA implementation earlier today, which stated that the new value-based reimbursement system will start on Jan. 1, 2017.
The final MACRA implementation rule...
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...
