By Nathan Elliott – NCQA provides a nationally recognized standard for validating an organization’s ability to collect, aggregate, and standardize healthcare data for quality measurement and reporting, such as Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS). It represents more than 72% of the U.S. population.
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The Sequoia Project, a leading non-profit focused on advancing healthcare interoperability, is pleased to publish the “Payer-to-Payer Compliance Readiness Checklist.” This checklist is designed to help payers assess their readiness for compliance with the payer-to-payer components of CMS-0057-F, a critical regulation for improving data sharing and interoperability in healthcare.
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Value Pathways (MVPs) registration window is open for the 2025 performance year. Individuals, groups, subgroups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities that wish to report an MVP can register until December 1, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET.
Registration is open through June 30, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System Survey for the 2025 performance year.
A cardiothoracic surgeon and former host of an award-winning TV show, he now leads the largest agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, with a $1.7 trillion budget, tasked with delivering health outcomes for more than 160 million people.
By Jim Tate – On the first day of his second term (January 20, 2025), President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
MIPS eligible clinicians and their representatives can submit and update their MIPS data until April 14, 2024, 8 p.m. ET. We encourage submission of data as early as possible in advance of this extended deadline.
By Leigh Burchell – The current administration has made deregulation a central policy priority, aiming to reduce burden and costs in as many sectors of the economy as possible, including health care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming MIPS dates and deadlines for the 2024 performance year, including changes to the Targeted Review timeline effective this year.