The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will give physician groups participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) additional time to apply for a waiver that will allow their data to be re-weighted to account for the impacts of COVID-19 and the surge in cases related to the Omicron variant. CMS has assured...National News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services alternative payment models have found immediate difficulty navigating the COVID-19 pandemic with limited resources and occasionally difficult reporting requirements, but the issues between participants in these payment models and the structures of them actually go much further back than the...National News
The maximum MIPS payment adjustment for exceptional performance is the highest ever while participation is nearly at 100% with more than half a million clinicians participating and about 85% of small practices.
Clinicians with a final score equal to or above 75.00 points will receive a positive payment adjustment in 2021 of up to...Arizona News
Hospitals and providers participating in Medicare quality value-based purchasing programs received unprecedented relief on Sunday from a Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement that relaxes reporting requirements and extends data submission deadlines.
The action is part of the Trump Administration's response...News
The proposed rule for Year 3 of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) may boost participation and cut paperwork for eligible clinicians. Proposal adds ten new quality measures and dumps dozens of "low value" measures.
Providers, healthcare organization executives, association heads, and other stakeholders have until September 10 to...National News
CMS' 2018 updates to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) regulation generated a response from the physician group.
The letter gave CMS a meticulous review of the agency's work. Some of the issues that are of critical importance to family physicians -- many of them related to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) -- were...
Yesterday was the deadline to submit comments.
The proposed rule amends the Quality Payment Program portion of MACRA (The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015).
The proposal suggests many changes, including:
*Participation in virtual groups
*Exempting more physicians with low volumes of Medicare patients from...
To participate in MIPS, clinicians and groups must possess certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) to participate in the advancing care information performance category of the program.
Under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scoring, MIPS-eligible clinicians and groups may qualify for a re-weighting of...
