CMS continues to provide relief where possible to clinicians responding to the 2019 COVID-19 public health emergency. They are applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to ALL individually eligible MIPS eligible clinicians for the 2021 performance year.
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By Steven Posnack – When President Obama signed the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act into law in 2016, it marked a significant shift in health policy and health law. Not since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 has there been a more noteworthy change in how electronic health information is approached under United States federal law.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Christian Johnson & Vaishali Patel – More and more individuals are using digital data to make informed decisions about their health. Whether it be health information collected by wearable devices or lab test results in a patient portal, individuals can now access, share, and use electronic health data to manage their health needs.
By Steven Posnack – What should 2030 look like because of interoperability? That’s what we asked our stakeholders back in May 2021. And boy, did you all deliver! We received an overwhelming number of submissions, north of 700 one-liners, from Twitter and HealthIT.gov. We even got video submissions from leaders in the field – thank you again!
CMS is allowing clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model Entities to request Merit-based Incentive Payment System performance category reweighting for PY 2020 under their EUC policy through November 29, 2021 at 8 p.m. ET.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services is rescinding the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of “Reasonable and Necessary” (MCIT/R&N) final rule because of concerns that the provisions in the final rule may not have been sufficient to protect Medicare patients.
CMS published the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which includes the final policies for the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program. The rule affects traditional MIPS, MIPS Value Pathways, the APM Performance Pathway, Advanced APMs, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.