CMS recently released the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rule for 2017. For organizations that have provider-based clinics, this year’s final rule offers guidance.
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Learn More about the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and How to “Pick Your Pace” in 2017 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a tool to share automatically electronic data for the Medicare Quality Payment Program.
Subscribers of the eHealth listserv are encouraged to sign up for the new CMS Quality Payment Program listserv.
By Holly Taylor – With the recent release of the MACRA final rule, CMS confirmed that they remain committed to implementing the legislative requirements in less than 3 months, but did make some provisions to satisfy provider concerns.
In a final rule that changes the way off-campus facilities are reimbursed, the CMS was flexible in grandfathering some hospitals that had to relocate their buildings because of natural disasters.
By Scott Ablin – Do you have level 3 or 4 inpatient claims that were denied and that you have appealed? If so, you may qualify to partake in the second settlement process with CMS. Register for the MLN Connects National Provider Call.
On November 1, CMS finalized updated payment rates and policy changes in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System for CY 2017.
CMS announced new opportunities for clinicians to join APMs developed by the CMS Innovation Center to improve care and potentially earn an incentive payment under the Quality Payment Program created through MACRA.