Approximately 91 percent of all eligible clinicians participated in 2017 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting, exceeding the CMS goal of 90 percent participation in the first year of...
Almost three-quarters (71 percent) of clinicians are “not very comfortable” or “not comfortable at all” with new measures under MACRA’s Quality Payment Program, and about...
Eligible clinicians participating in MACRA’s Quality Payment Program can now start submitting their 2017 performance data on a new system on the program’s website, CMS recently announced in...
A recent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigation found two major vulnerabilities with MACRA implementation. The HHS watchdog reported that CMS still needs to provide practice-specific...
CMS recently issued a final 2018 MACRA implementation rule, detailing the requirements for Quality Payment Program participation in 2018.
“CMS listened to feedback from the healthcare community...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two proposed physician-focused payment models will go to the HHS Secretary for possible limited-scale testing, while one model was stopped from becoming a potential alternative payment model under...
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...
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...
CMS should develop financial incentives comparable to those in the Quality Payment Program’s Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) track for providers who assume financial risk under Medicare...
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...
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...
ORLANDO - CMS recently selected 11 healthcare organizations to receive a total of $100 million in funding to help small and rural eligible clinicians participate in the newly-launched MACRA.
Each...
