The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is automatically applying its extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to all MIPS eligible clinicians for the 2020 performance period. The agency also is reopening the MIPS EUC application for individual MIPS eligible clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model Entities through March 31, 2021. READ MORE
CMS hopes to scale back its mandatory joint replacement bundled payment program and fully cancel its cardiac bundled payment programs before they even begin in January 2018. Does this give emergency physicians the chance to help shape future programs? READ MORE
As more and more details of the MIPS program are distributed, it would be easy for providers to get confused about the difference between phrases like “special status,” “eligibility requirements,” and “hardship exemptions.” So what does “special status” mean? Who qualifies for a hardship exemption? And are you even eligible to participate in the program? READ MORE
Back in mid-March, dozens of healthcare organizations sent a letter to newly-confirmed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma urging the federal government to reduce the burden and penalties associated with quality reporting. But just how high are those costs? READ MORE
Even if you choose to participate in the MIPS program at a minimum level for 2017, take advantage of this one-year “grace period” to prepare for the more rigorous requirements of 2018 and beyond. Here are a few suggestions. READ MORE
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. READ MORE
While the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) recently focused on value-based care in their Annual Perioperative Surgical Home Summit, now they are bringing the concept to their larger annual meeting at this year’s ANESTHESIOLOGY conference in Chicago in October. READ MORE
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is reaching out to small practices to ensure their success under MACRA, while also backing away from earlier estimates that most solo practitioners or clinicians in groups of 24 or less would likely incur penalties in 2019 under the new payment system. READ MORE
On June 24-26, 2016, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), along with the UC Irvine Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, will host the annual Perioperative Surgical Home Summit. READ MORE
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently reported that participation in PQRS continued to grow in 2014 both in total numbers and in the percentage of eligible providers who participated. READ MORE
