Medicare Physician Payment

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to update physician fee schedule rates by 0.25% in calendar year 2019.
A performance threshold. Clinicians who score above the performance threshold will receive positive payment adjustments on a sliding scale, and clinicians who score below the threshold will receive negative payment adjustments on a sliding scale. CMS will publish the performance threshold prior…
AHA has created a Medicare operating DSH calculator for hospital leaders to estimate hospitals’ operating DSH payments – both the empirical portion as well as the uncompens
Press Release Statement on MACRA Physician Quality Payment Program Final Rule for CY 2018 Contact: Colin Milligan, 202-638-5491, cmilligan@aha.org Marie Johnson, 202-626-2351, mjohnson@aha.org Tom Nickels Executive Vice President American Hospital Association November 2, 2017  
Press Release Statement on Final CY 2018 Physician Fee Schedule Rule Contact: Colin Milligan, 202-638-5491, cmilligan@aha.org Marie Johnson, 202-626-2351, mjohnson@aha.org   Tom Nickels Executive Vice President American Hospital Association November 2, 2017  
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week vowed quick action on bipartisan legislation to replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula when the Senate reconvenes on April 13. The AHA and hospital leaders also are calling for speedy action. “We’ll turn to it…