As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to hash out the details of the new MACRA Quality Payment Program, one thing is becoming clearer and clearer: in order for anesthesiologists, or any physicians for that matter, to survive in this new age of value-based care, they must begin to take their clinical and practice data much more seriously.

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases PQRS Feedback Reports in the next few weeks, providers who believe a 2017 negative PQRS payment adjustment was applied incorrectly can request an informal review.

In a blog post late last week, CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt announced that providers will have four options for when and how they begin the the QPP.