As more and more healthcare organizations begin adopting some form of a value-based payment model, the findings of the 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey suggest provider organizations have a sober assessment of their capabilities in facing the challenges ahead.
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By Robert Rowley MD – We are at the threshold of a new way of paying for healthcare. We have paid for it traditionally with fee-for-service, a legacy that goes back to the beginning of third-party payments for healthcare (insurance) in the early and mid-1900s.
By Jeff Jones – The healthcare industry has unveiled another addition to the already enormous alphabet soup. This new addition goes by the name MIPS, or more properly, Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Healthcare providers are scrambling to better understand how MACRA, Meaningful Use, and MIPS will impact their practices.
By Steven Posnack – The health IT landscape has changed considerably since the HITECH Act. The Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap is now front and center and we’re in a period of transition prompted by MACRA. We have also seen exciting and impactful industry work take shape like the development of HL7® FHIR® and the Argonaut Project.
Are you a health care provider or hospital administrator who is attending the HIMSS Annual Conference? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is eager to learn from you about your thoughts on the future of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes for the Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Programs in 2017 that will, if finalized, provide stable and fair payments to plans, and makes unprecedented improvements to the program for plans that provide high quality care to the most vulnerable enrollees.
CMS shut down the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System to correct an error that is preventing eligible professionals (EPs) from claiming an exclusion for Measure 1 of the Patient Electronic Access Objective (referred to as 8A in the attestation system).
CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans, as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment, for the first time, on core measures primarily for physician quality programs.
CMS is reporting these events, updates and deadlines for providers. These items focus on the agency’s financial and payment responsibilities to providers. Read and sign up for the CMS weekly newsletter MLN Connects® Provider eNews for the most current news.