About 98 percent of eligible clinicians avoided a penalty under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2018, and almost all of these clinicians earned a positive payment adjustment, CMS...
Clinicians earning value-based reimbursement through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) will be able to earn credit for participating in and reporting information on COVID-19 clinical...
Providers participating in some of Medicare’s largest value-based purchasing models will have some flexibility with quality reporting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CMS announced last...
CMS announced it selected 205 applications who will participate in the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) Model, a payment model that ensures beneficiaries’ access to emergency...
Over 84,200 more eligible clinicians sufficiently participated in one of the Quality Payment Program’s Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in 2018 compared to the previous year, according...
A vast majority of medical group practices experienced growing regulatory burden in the last year, with prior authorizations and Medicare’s Quality Payment Program topping their list of the most...
In a fact sheet created on Sept. 27, CMS announced that Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) bonus payments for participation in an approved model in 2017 will be going out to qualifying clinicians...
More than 90,000 clinicians are still waiting on the 2019 Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) bonus payment for their participation in 2017 and nine industry groups are demanding payment from...
CMS is planning to overhaul reporting for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in order to make the pay-for-performance program less burdensome and more meaningful to providers, according a...
Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) participation in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) nearly doubled from 2017 to 2018, increasing from 99,076 to 183,306 clinicians, CMS recently reported in an...
For the past two years, MACRA has been shifting providers away from fee-for-service to value. But industry leaders still have reservations about MACRA implementation and the law’s value-based...
Ninety-five percent of eligible clinicians avoided a negative payment adjustment through Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participation in 2017, of which 93 percent earned a positive...
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...
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....
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...
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...
