Inside CMS’ 2020 Proposed Changes to QPP
By Matt Fusan – What’s at Stake for Medical Practices in 2020 and Beyond? Understanding Shifts to MIPS and APMs through the lens of CMS’ complex plans for value-based care.
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New Resources Available on QPP Resource Library
CMS recently posted several new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) resources to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library. Visit the resource library on the QPP website.
CMS Discharge Planning Rule Supports Interoperability and Patient Preferences
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule that empowers patients preparing to move from acute care into post-acute care (PAC), a process called “discharge planning.”
Omnibus Burden Reduction (Conditions of Participation) Final Rule CMS-3346-F
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 total projected savings to providers of $800 million annually.
Omnibus Burden Reduction (Conditions of Participation) Final Rule CMS-3346-F
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…
9 Groups Urge CMS to Pay Medicare Bonuses
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.
2017 MIPS Final Scores: Are Small Practices Being Left Behind?
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.
CONNECT Project Transitions to the Private Sector
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.
HHS Announces Health IT Awardees Focused on Innovative Interoperability Solutions
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.