Forty-nine physician groups have asked the government to reduce the reporting period for MIPS this year. In a letter (PDF) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the groups, which ...
CMS is launching a demonstration of its Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive (MAQI), which pushes Medicare Advantage (MA) providers into taking on more risk. The demonstration, ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is allowing more time for doctors participating in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System to utilize an excessive and uncontrollable circumstance (EUC) ...
A sheer 91% of all clinicians eligible under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participated in the first year of the program. That slightly exceeded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) allows the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, to define a low-volume threshold for the purpose of ...
CMS recently disclosed it made an error when processing quality scores for physicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. 1. CMS recently ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is accepting 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception and MIPS Promoting Interoperability ...
A leading Washington health expert is urging Medicare to quickly test an alternative approach to its fledgling Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for physicians, while also pressing for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Federal officials said they will expand an exemption from Medicare data-reporting requirements for healthcare professionals practicing in regions struck last year by hurricanes and wildfires. The ...
On November 2, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) program, which will enter its second year in 2018. Also known as ...