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The following are updates from the CMS email list services on the Quality Payment Program. Visit qpp.cms.gov to learn more about the QPP and if you are eligible to participate.
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Future of Health Care expert panel is calling for a two-stage approach to health care reform that would first stabilize the individual insurance market, and then work expeditiously to address the more fundamental structural challenges in America’s current health care system.
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.
Q&A with Timothy Mills – At the end of the day, physicians want to do what’s in the best interest of patients. Physician practices are eager to make the transition to value-based care, but fee-for-service continues to rule that visit and how the physician gets reimbursed.
By Marilyn Agbeko – Ah, the good old days; perform a procedure for a patient, submit claims and get paid. To get paid more, perform more procedures. Easy math. Success lay in managing the transactions between scheduling of services and receipts of payment so that you didn’t leave money on the table.
By Sean Cassidy – You’ve got to love CMS. They took a simple concept like “if you lower the cost of delivering care to a population of patients, we’ll share the savings with you” and exploded it into a Rube Goldberg machine of pieces, parts, rules, constraints and exceptions.
At the HIMSS conference in February, I sat down with Ric Sinclair of ZirMed. In this interview, Ric offers his insights on current and future trends impacting revenue cycle management.
By Marilyn Agbeko – To Repeal or not to repeal; that is NOT the question. Not when it comes value based care and the basic tenets of tying reimbursement to quality. At least, not that we’ve seen yet, and I daresay, not that we will see any time soon.