CMS Awards Approximately $100 Million to Help Small Practices Succeed in the Quality Payment Program CMS awarded approximately $20 million to 11 organizations for the first year of a five-year program to provide on-the-ground training and education about the Quality Payment Program for clinicians in individual or small group practices. CMS intends to invest up to an additional $80 million over the remaining four years. February 21, 2017 CMS CMS, Quality Payment Program 0 0 Comment Read More »
Deadline for Informal Review of Potential Penalties Extended to 12/7 Physicians who want to contest potential payment penalties associated with the PQRS and/or the VM now have until December 7 to file a request for an informal review of their data. December 1, 2016 CMS VM, CMS, MACRA, penalties, penalty, PQRS, Value Modifier 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS Launches New Online Tool to Make Quality Payment Program Easier for Clinicians CMS recently released a tool to automatically share electronic data for the Medicare Quality Payment Program. November 29, 2016 MACRA, Physician Resource, Practice Management API, CMS, MACRA, QPP 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS announces additional opportunities to join innovative care approaches under QPP CMS announced new opportunities for clinicians to join Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) developed by the CMS Innovation Center to improve care and potentially earn an incentive payment under the Quality Payment Program created through MACRA. November 4, 2016 MACRA, Medicare, Payment APM, CMS, CMS Innovation Center, MACRA, QPP 0 0 Comment Read More »
Final MACRA Rule Issued This morning, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). October 14, 2016 AMA, MACRA, Physician Resource AMA, CMS, MACRA, Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
