Achieving a better night sleep and less work stress could definitely be added as the seventh and eighth reason to audit this year, but we suspect those will come as benefits to addressing the six reasons to audit in 2017.
Read MoreWith the tedium of detail and legal jargon contained in the MACRA legislation (over 2,000 pages in the final release), how are small and mid-sized organizations supposed to keep up with all the requirements?
Read MoreAs you may have heard, the permanent doc fix is here, MACRA (Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act).
The new legislation emphasizes quality by replacing a quilt work of existing programs. It also adds an additional category, Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, and places all programs under one Quality Payment Program (QPP) umbrella.
Read MoreNow that the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) regulations have been issued, small practices (15 fewer clinicians) need to immediately know what to do to prepare for the beginning of 2017.
Read MoreUnder Medicare, the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is wrapping 4 quality programs under one umbrella. Of the two paths under MACRA, MIPS (Merit Based Incentive Payment) and APM (Alternate Payment Model), we’ll concentrate on MIPS – which at least initially, most eligible clinician will be subject to.
Wondering if you are even subject to the new Medicare Quality Payment Program?
Read MoreAs you may have heard, the permanent doc fix is here, in the form of MACRA - Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act.
The new legislation, among other actions, accentuates quality by:
- replacing a quilt work of existing programs,
- adding one additional category, Clinical Practice Improvement Activities (CPIA),
- and placing all programs under one Quality Payment Program umbrella.