Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)/MACRA/QPP
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced MyHealthEData, a federal initiative to expand patient access to their medical data electronically.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is accepting applications through May 2 for up to $30 million in cooperative agreements to develop, improve, update or expand quality measures under the Quality Payment Program for clinicians.
Clinicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System may apply through March 23 to participate in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services study on the burdens associated with reporting MIPS quality measures in 2018.
On Feb. 9, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, a massive budget bill containing a number of priorities important to hospitals and health systems. In addition to funding the government until March 23, the bill also raises the debt ceiling and sets…
On February 9, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, a massive budget bill containing a number of priorities important to hospitals and health systems. In addition to funding the government until March 23, the bill also raises the debt ceiling and…
More than 20,000 clinicians will receive between 6.6% and 19.9% more on their Medicare physician fee schedule payments in 2018.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday recommended that Congress increase Medicare base payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019, as provided under current law. In other voting, the commission recommended that the Health and Human Services Secretary…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will accept applications through March 12 for a new voluntary bundled payment model that will qualify as an advanced alternative payment model under Medicare’s Quality Payment Program for clinicians.
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…
However, the QPP’s payment implications will vary depending on a number of scenarios – such as whether a clinician is attributed to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)i; to a MIPS alternative payment model (APM); or to an advanced APM. See Figure 1. While MIPS-eligible clinicians have a…