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.
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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.
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.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently posted new resources to the Quality Payment Program website to help healthcare professionals participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
CMS OMH and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the HRSA introduced Connected Care, an educational initiative to raise awareness of the benefits of CCM services for Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions and to provide health care professionals with support to implement CCM programs.
The webinar is open to the public and will provide an overview of the Medicare ACO Track 1+ Model, including details on the Model’s design, eligibility and application requirements, evaluation, and learning activities.
To streamline your access to resources, CMS has merged all up-to-date content from our Road to 10 website to our main ICD-10 site, cms.gov/ICD10. We’re now phasing out the Road to 10 site, with an anticipated completion date of April 3.