By Beth Onofri – The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is the path that most providers will take in 2017. It is comprised of three categories. Each category represents a portion of a total composite score of 100%.
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To streamline your access to resources, CMS has merged all up-to-date content from our Road to 10 website to our main ICD-10 site, cms.gov/ICD10. We’re now phasing out the Road to 10 site, with an anticipated completion date of April 3.
By David Harlow – MACRA, the current framework for Medicare physician payments, specifically quality incentive payments, took effect January 1, 2017. The 2015 law replaced the flawed SGR (sustainable growth rate) reimbursement formula in a rare show of congressional bipartisanship,
In partnership with states and providers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plays a leading role in safeguarding the health of America’s future by providing coverage for more than one in three American children
CMS awarded approximately $20 million to 11 organizations for the first year of a five-year program to provide on-the-ground training and education about the Quality Payment Program for clinicians in individual or small group practices of 15 clinicians or fewer.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently posted new resources to the Quality Payment Program website to help eligible clinicians and data submission vendors successfully prepare to participate in the program.
CMS is extending the submission deadline for 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) data submission for the EHR reporting mechanism.
By Justin Barnes – The financial, clinical and technical underpinnings of implementing an effective Quality Payment Program strategy have introduced a new level of complexity to many healthcare organizations.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted new resources to the Quality Payment Program website to help eligible clinicians and data submission…