News & Updates From CMS
CMS is reporting these events, updates and deadlines for providers and hospitals. These items focus on the agency’s EHR Incentive programs as well as their eHealth and health IT programs and initiatives.
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2016 PQRS Educational Materials Now Available
CMS is pleased to announce the posting of several 2016 PQRS educational materials. PQRS is a quality reporting program that encourages individual eligible professionals (EPs) and group practices to report information on the quality of care to Medicare.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report February 2016
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report in February. Active registrants total over a half a million.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report January 2016
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report in January. Active registrants total over a half a million.
Future of the MIPS Program: CMS Session at #HIMSS16
Are you a health care provider or hospital administrator who is attending the HIMSS Annual Conference? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is eager to learn from you about your thoughts on the future of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program.
CMS Proposes 2017 Payment and Policy Updates for Medicare Health and Drug Plans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes for the Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Programs in 2017 that will, if finalized, provide stable and fair payments to plans, and makes unprecedented improvements to the program for plans that provide high quality care to the most vulnerable enrollees.
Will CMS Efforts be Enough to Buoy Rural Healthcare?
By Irv H. Lichtenwald – Imagine you’re living in Brooklyn and you have a medical emergency. If the hospital nearest you, say Lutheran Medical Center, were to close, you could go to Maimonides or New York Methodist a short taxi or ambulance ride away. Not so in rural US.
CMS Announces Alignment and Simplification of Quality Measures
CMS and America’s Health Insurance Plans, as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment, for the first time, on core measures primarily for physician quality programs.
News & Updates from CMS
CMS is reporting these events, updates and deadlines for providers. These items focus on the agency’s financial and payment responsibilities to providers. Read and sign up for the CMS weekly newsletter MLN Connects® Provider eNews for the most current news.