Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Two Pages
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.
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CMS Proposes 2018 Payment and Policy Updates for Medicare Hospital Admissions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule that would update 2018 Medicare payment and policies when patients are admitted into hospitals.
MIPS, Robert Frost, and the Four Options
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.
CMS Approves Alpha II as a Qualified 2017 Registry
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.
MACRA & MIPS: Why Aggressive Physicians Have a Tremendous Opportunity to Benefit
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.
MIPS: The Latest Urban Legend?
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.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report February 2017
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.
Getting Paid in a Value Based World
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.
CMS Monday Morning Rounds 3-27-17
CMS is reporting these events and information on payment issues concerning Medicare and Medicaid. News includes updates on Inpatient Skilled Nursing Facility denials and Chronic Care Management Payment correction for RHCs and FQHCs.