By Tom S. Lee – The Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR1892) (officially renamed the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018”) enacted by the United States Congress and President Trump on February 9, 2018 extends the transition years for MIPS to include 2019, 2020 and 2021.
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CMS has updated its Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances policy for the 2017 MIPS transition year to include counties affected by Hurricane Nate and additional counties affected by the California wildfires.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently posted the following 2018 Patient-Facing Encounters resources on the CMS website:
Register for Medicare Learning Network events. As part of the broader HHS commitment to improving the Medicare appeals process, CMS made available the Low Volume Appeals (LVA) settlement option on February 5, 2018.
If you have not tuned in to our radio station yet, we invite you to REDISCOVER RADIO. Check out these episodes of Healthcare de Jure, Interviews NOW and Harlow on Healthcare with discussions on healthcare revenue and value based care.
By Anshu Jindal – In a previous blog, we had discussed some of the recent updates announced by CMS for MIPS. One of those updates was the release of Quality benchmarks for 2018. There are 4 key things you need to understand about Quality benchmarks:
As part of our on going series on InterviewsNOW, I spoke to Lee Barrett the Executive Director of EHNAC (Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission). The episode is now on-demand. Check it out and take a listen.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a partnership to share data, data analytics tools and best practices for identifying and preventing fraud, waste and abuse.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced the launch of a new voluntary bundled payment model called Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced.