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Appropriate Use Criteria Testing Period Extended

By Renee Dustman

In CMS

Oct 28th, 2020

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The Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program, slated to begin Jan. 1, 2021, has been postponed. A notice on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website states that the educational and operations testing period will now continue through 2021. “We encourage stakeholders to use this period to learn, test and prepare for the AUC ...

Thousands of Clinicians Stand to Lose 5% Revenue

By Renee Dustman

In Billing

Sep 18th, 2020

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Quality reporting won’t pay off in 2020 for some eligible clinicians unless they do this. Eligible clinicians who achieved Qualifying Alternative Payment Model (APM) Participant (QP) status in 2018 should begin receiving their 5 percent incentive payment this month. More than 183,000 clinicians achieved QP status in the 2018 performance year of the Quality Payment ...

What’s In Store for MIPS Eligible Clinicians?

By Renee Dustman

In COVID-19

Aug 21st, 2020

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Quality Payment Program participation gets a little easier in some ways, tougher in others. A proposed rule published in the Aug. 17 Federal Register outlines potential changes to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) starting Jan. 1, 2021. Rather than implementing certain provisions finalized last year, however, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is ...

COVID-19 Derails 2019 MIPS Data Reporting

By Kristin Webb-Hollering

In COVID-19

May 27th, 2020

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COVID-19 is a game-changer. Ever since President Trump declared a public health emergency (PHE) Jan. 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been issuing Social Security Act waivers to Medicare and Medicaid policies in rapid fire succession — including waivers to reporting requirements in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). CMS has ...

CMS Pushes Back Quality Reporting Deadlines

By Kristin Webb-Hollering

In COVID-19

Mar 25th, 2020

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Quality data submission may be optional in the months ahead. If you’re struggling to compile your Medicare quality reporting data, relief is in sight. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering much needed assistance with extensions to submission deadlines and additional hardship exceptions. “CMS recognizes that ...

Appropriate Use Criteria Testing Period Extended

Thousands of Clinicians Stand to Lose 5% Revenue

What’s In Store for MIPS Eligible Clinicians?

COVID-19 Derails 2019 MIPS Data Reporting

CMS Pushes Back Quality Reporting Deadlines

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