By Justin Barnes – In the inaugural reporting year of MACRA’s new Quality Payment Program, quality measures and clinical practice improvement activities will collectively account for 85 percent of MIPS composite scores for healthcare providers.
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By Jeff Jones – With 2017 upon us, many practices are scrambling to understand the Quality Payment Program final rule. The final rule was published last October with CMS making significant revisions to the proposed rule.
By Justin Barnes – With kickoff of the inaugural MACRA reporting period nearly upon us, many healthcare providers will greet 2017 with quality payment program objectives top-of-mind.
2017 is fast approaching, and so is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, the new Medicare payment system for physicians and other clinicians. CMS estimates that more than 90% of eligible clinicians will participate in MIPS,
By Holly Taylor – As the market responds to continued pressure to reduce healthcare costs – and with costs expected to consume 20% of the US economy by 2020 – the march to value-based care will pick up speed in 2017.
By Don Michaels PhD – When CMS released the Notice of Proposed Rule for the implementation of the MACRA – in April of this year, howls of protest could be heard throughout the healthcare landscape.
Subscribers of the PQRS listserv are encouraged to sign up for the new CMS Quality Payment Program listserv. The Quality Payment Program is part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and includes two tracks.
Recently released MACRA and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System for CY 2017 final rules include provisions that will affect the EHR Incentive Programs in 2017 and beyond.
CMS announced more new opportunities for clinicians to join Advanced Alternative Payment Models to improve care and earn additional incentive payments under the Quality Payment Program, which implements MACRA.