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The Quality Payment Program improves Medicare by helping you focus on care quality and the one thing that matters most — making patients healthier. Know where you stand.
MACRA requires CMS to remove Social Security Numbers from all Medicare cards by April 2019. CMS will begin mailing new Medicare cards with a new Medicare number (currently called the Medicare Claim Number on cards) to your patients in April 2018.
CMS issued 2 proposed rules that would update Medicare payment and policies for doctors and other clinicians who treat Medicare patients in calendar year 2018 & that updates payment rates and policy changes in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Systemand Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System.
Join HITECH Answers and SA Ignite and attend our monthly series of webinars on the details of the CMS Quality Payment Program this Thursday at 3pm ET. Our experts will be talking and taking questions on the recent CMS proposed rule.
MACRA promises to reshape how Medicare pays physicians under the QPP. Yet, a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians who have been involved in practice decision-making related to it shows that fewer than one in four physicians feel well prepared to meet its requirements in 2017.
CMS is reporting these events, updates and deadlines for providers and hospitals on payment issues concerning Medicare and Medicaid. News includes QPP proposed rule, E/M coding, new Medicare cards, and upcoming events.
CMS’ Annual Call for Measures and Activities for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) track of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) is accepting Quality and Advancing Care Information measure proposals through June 30, 2017 for the 2018 program year; measures submitted beginning July 1, 2017 will be considered for the 2019 program year.
Join us for this special session of the ABCs of MIPS to review the newly released CMS 2018 Quality Payment Program proposed rule. Register now for this June 27th event.