CMS posted the 2017 annual update for eCQMs for CY 2018 reporting for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals, and CY 2018 performance for Eligible Professionals and Eligible Clinicians.
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By William Hyman – New rule creates one from two old rules. But there is no real need to worry about the number of pages or the depth of detail because you have until June 13th to respond.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that would update 2018 Medicare payment and policies when patients are admitted into hospitals.
By Jim Tate – It is not often we are given the opportunity to make a clear-cut decision. If you are anything like me, you chew on the bone of indecision until there is nothing left but the marrow. I make lists of the pros and cons.
Alpha II, LLC, a leading developer of software platforms, software-as-a-service and publications that support healthcare reimbursement, announced that it has been qualified by CMS as a Registry for the 2017 Quality Payment Program year.
By David Spellberg MD – During the recent Radiological Society of North America conference at McCormick Place in Chicago, a session titled, “Will MACRA and MIPS Kill Your Practice?” pretty much summed up the consensus feelings of most physicians.
By Jim Tate – We have all heard them, the urban legends. Giant alligators in the sewers of New York City. The woman who put her poodle in the microwave to dry it off after a bath. And my personal favorite, the Vanishing Hitchhiker.
Just the facts… CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from the February report. Active registrants total over a half a million.
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.