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.
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CAPG recently submitted comments to CMS encouraging the agency to move forward with two alternative payment models to proliferate high quality, low cost care. The comments were submitted in response to a request for information seeking feedback on the future of the CMS Innovation Center.
CMS has announced the results of the first Qualifying APM Participant (QP) determinations based on eligible clinician participation in the 2017 Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
CMS issued a proposed rule that would make changes in the second year of the Quality Payment Program as required by MACRA. CMS’s goal is to simplify the program, especially for small, independent, and rural practices, while ensuring fiscal sustainability and high-quality care within Medicare.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently posted new resources to the Quality Payment Program website to help healthcare professionals participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
By Marilyn Agbeko – To Repeal or not to repeal; that is NOT the question. Not when it comes value based care and the basic tenets of tying reimbursement to quality. At least, not that we’ve seen yet, and I daresay, not that we will see any time soon.
By Tom Lee – Since the January 1st start of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), provider organizations are deciding where focusing their efforts can yield the greatest benefits and minimize the most risks under MIPS and/or alternative payment models (APMs).
By David Harlow – MACRA, the current framework for Medicare physician payments, specifically quality incentive payments, took effect January 1, 2017. The 2015 law replaced the flawed SGR (sustainable growth rate) reimbursement formula in a rare show of congressional bipartisanship,