CMS has proposed changes to exclude physician practices from MACRA participation and quality reporting that have either less than $90,000 in Medicare revenue or fewer than 200 Medicare patients per year.
Voluntary vs. Mandatory? What will happen in the near future? Oh, bundled payments. In a fee-for-service model, a hospital is...
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There’s been speculation for months, but now it’s official. CMS issued a final rule to push back mandatory implementation of bundled payment initiatives for cardiac care, along with the expansion of Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) to include hip and femur fractures, to January 1, 2018.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in healthcare, especially right now, it’s that everything is uncertain.
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) passed by Congress in 2015, removed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) assessment used to control Medicare spending. This change removed the requirement of Congress voting on and authorizing changes to the physician fee schedule. The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) transitioned into the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Medicare now rewards high-value, high-quality Medicare clinicians with payment increases – while at the same time reducing payments to those clinicians who are not meeting performance standards.
In April of 2016, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated bundled payments as a part of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model, which holds hospitals financially accountable for the quality and cost of a CJR episode.
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