Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
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Harnessing Electronic Health Data in the Palm of Your Hand
By Christian Johnson & Vaishali Patel – More and more individuals are using digital data to make informed decisions about their health. Whether it be health information collected by wearable devices or lab test results in a patient portal, individuals can now access, share, and use electronic health data to manage their health needs.
What We Heard: Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030
By Steven Posnack – What should 2030 look like because of interoperability? That’s what we asked our stakeholders back in May 2021. And boy, did you all deliver! We received an overwhelming number of submissions, north of 700 one-liners, from Twitter and HealthIT.gov. We even got video submissions from leaders in the field – thank you again!
PY 2020 Performance Category Reweighting Requests Deadline Extended
CMS is allowing clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model Entities to request Merit-based Incentive Payment System performance category reweighting for PY 2020 under their EUC policy through November 29, 2021 at 8 p.m. ET.
CMS Repeals MCIT/R&N Rule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services is rescinding the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of “Reasonable and Necessary” (MCIT/R&N) final rule because of concerns that the provisions in the final rule may not have been sufficient to protect Medicare patients.
CMS Publishes 2022 PFS Final Rule for the Quality Payment Program
CMS published the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which includes the final policies for the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program. The rule affects traditional MIPS, MIPS Value Pathways, the APM Performance Pathway, Advanced APMs, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Monday Morning Rounds with CMS
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
CommonWellTV 2021: Join the #InteropDoneRight Crew!
On March 4, 2013, CommonWell Health Alliance launched with five founding members and a shared vision to break down barriers to health data exchange. Fast forward more than eight years later: CommonWell has more than 80 members and a nationwide network that has retrieved more than 1.5 billion records across 24,000 provider sites.
CMS Innovation Center Strategic Refresh Emphasizes Value-based Payment Models and Health Equity
By John Fryer & Rick Goddard – Recently, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation introduced their strategic refresh “Putting All Patients at the Center of Care” to support broader, more equitable, and outcome-based healthcare delivery transformation while streamlining current and future payment models.