Physician organizations were mostly thrilled when Congress passed the “doc fix” legislation in April, replacing the despised Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate with the Merit-based Incentive Payment ...

A coalition of organizations, including the AHA, urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to ensure accountable care organizations and Merit-based Incentive Payment System-eligible ...

Physicians now have two options for MIPS reporting: MIPS Value Pathways and the Alternative Payment Model Performance Pathway. Each MVP unit includes a subset of measures and activities that are more ...

While the phrase “return to normal” is used in many different contexts, interestingly, it can now also be applied to the maximum payment adjustments that clinicians receive through the Merit-based ...

CMS has announced the agency made mistakes related an undisclosed number of providers when processing their quality scores in the first year of participation for the merit-based incentive payment ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking clinicians to participate in a study on the burden of quality reporting for the merit-based incentive system. CMS is looking at what's involved ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently finalized a rule establishing the new Ambulatory Specialty Model (“ASM”)— a ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act final rule is here. As industry experts begin to dig into the 2,400-page document released Friday, a few details are emerging that will be critical for ...

Eligible clinicians who participate in Medicare's Quality Payment Program, including physicians and midlevel practitioners, can earn credit in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for ...

On June 20, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed 2018 Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule. The rule addresses participation requirements for 2018 ...

Almost three months into the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act’s first performance year, CMS has still not released eligibility information for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, one ...