On June 20, CMS released its much-anticipated 2018 Quality Payment Program proposed rule, aimed at simplifying reporting requirements for year two of the program implementing the Medicare Access and ...

As it stands, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System doesn't allow enough time for physicians, practices and trading partners to prepare for proposed changes in workflow, investments and system ...

The first major Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act impact most providers will feel comes from the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System program. MIPS rolls up and replaces the meaningful use, ...

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, ...

A new study by the Brookings Institution claims physicians would earn more in Medicare reimbursements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System mandated by MACRA legislation than with other ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave roughly 200,000 more clinicians this break mostly by redefining practices that would not have to participate in the new system because their ...

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 ...

MACRA replaced the Sustainable Growth Rate with annual 0.5 percent payment increases for each of the next five years, and creates two tracks for physician payment after that. Under one track, MACRA ...

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 ...

The Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)[1] repealed the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system of paying for physician services in Medicare. Although the MACRA ...