Responding to continuing complaints that its Medicare physician payment system is too complicated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to make further changes this year. One of those ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) needs to be reimagined get back on track and to live up to its promise to incentivize value-based care. The Medicare Access and CHIP ...

ORLANDO -- A large crowd filled a ballroom at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Monday to hear from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on how to handle payment reform under the ...

Our company has a user bulletin board where anyone can ask questions, give advice, or discuss the big issues of the day. MACRA/MIPS is the hot topic right now, as providers debate how to participate, ...

As we noted in our prior blog post on the MACRA Proposed Rule, MIPS represents the consolidation of three CMS reporting programs: Physician Quality Reporting System, the Value-Based Modifier Program, ...

With the Merit-Based Incentive System and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the federal government is beginning to harmonize programs to simplify reporting, decrease the number of ...

MIPS will subsume the Physician Quality Reporting System, the Value-based Payment Modifier and the Medicare Electronic Health Record incentive program for eligible providers. These payment adjustments ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare policy, has come out strongly against the merit-based incentive system for physician payment and bonuses. MedPAC wants ...

On April 27, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that would put in place key parts of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).

On November 2, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) program, which will enter its second year in 2018. Also known as ...