Physicians across the country and across specialties are urging CMS to reduce the harms and burdens of prior authorization by incorporating Consensus Principles into its policies and encouraging other payers to do so as well.
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By Abhinav Aggarwal – Fall isn’t just about football. There is another game heating up this season, and the costs of losing could be devastating. Just like football, the Medicare Advantage market is highly competitive, with each player fighting to score big.
If you’re interested in forming a virtual group for the 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance year, the election period started October 1st. To form a virtual group, you must follow an election process and submit your election to CMS…
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments include Trio Health, Drawbridge Health, WithHealth, Health Fidelity Inc., Geneia, Protenus, Availity & CMS.
By Susan Jaffe – Millions of older adults can start signing up for private policies offering Medicare drug and medical coverage for 2020. But many risk wasting money and even jeopardizing their health care due to changes in Medicare’s plan finder, its most popular website.
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments include Premise Health, Diameter Health, CNSI, Torque Therapeutics, Duke Forge, Alphabet, Carrum Health, Pivot Point Consulting, InstaMed & CMS.
CMS recently posted several new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) resources to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library. Visit the resource library on the QPP website.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule that empowers patients preparing to move from acute care into post-acute care (PAC), a process called “discharge planning.”
This rule advances CMS’s Patients over Paperwork initiative by saving providers an estimated 4.4 million hours of time previously spent on paperwork with an overall total projected savings to providers of $800 million annually.