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 ...

We surveyed a national sample of internal medicine physicians in March–May 2017 to explore their beliefs about the newly implemented Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Respondents believed ...

The comment period on CMS' request for information regarding new value-oriented Medicare payment options under MACRA for physicians and other health professionals has been extended until November 17.

As we reported last month, CMS’ proposed rule updating MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (“QPP”) for CY 2018 would extend and expand exceptions that would allow many practitioners to avoid participating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years after the passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act and six months into the first performance year of the law’s Quality Payment Program, health plans, health systems and ...

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, ...

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).

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, ...