This rule advances CMS’s Patients over Paperwork initiative by saving providers an estimated 4.4 million hours of time previously spent on paperwork with an overall…
Read More
Nine organizations who represent a diverse array of healthcare providers wrote Seema Verma, administrator of CMS, urging the agency pay as soon as possible the 5 percent bonus for participation in Advanced Alternative Payment Models.
By Jim Tate – 2017 was the first reporting year for MACRA/MIPS (Quality Payment Program). Only recently has it been possible to begin the deeper analysis of the data generated out of that year. We are now able to go to the CMS website, Physician Compare, to see some of the publicly reported data.
By Avinash Shanbhag & Sherilyn Pruitt – This past decade, we have witnessed steady improvements to healthcare interoperability. For those paying close attention, the CONNECT open source project has played a role in making those improvements possible.
The U.S. Department of HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced two awards under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology (LEAP in Health IT) funding opportunity.
When it comes to healthcare financial and payment matters, value-based care, and policy here is what is being reported and talked about from AllScripts, Rock Health, Cigna, Community Health Systems and more.
If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2018, your performance feedback, which includes your MIPS final score and payment adjustment factor(s), are now available for review on the Quality Payment Program website.
CMS now produces a new podcast, “CMS: Beyond the Policy,”. It will highlight updates and changes to policies and programs in an easily accessible and conversational format. The podcast was created as a new method to explain the agency’s policies and programs.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has posted the following new resources to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library: The post New Resources…