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Check Your Initial 2020 MIPS Eligibility on the QPP Website

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
January 2, 2020
You can now use the updated Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program Participation Status Lookup Tool to check on your initial 2020 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Just enter your...

AMDA Submits Comments on CURES 2.0 Legislation

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners, Telemedicine
December 19, 2019
Last week the Society submitted comments to Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI), the co-sponsors of the CURES 2.0 plan. CURES 2.0 will aim to improve care delivery and look at how it is possible to modernize coverage and access to life-...

Episode-Based Cost Measure Development Project Seeks Clinicians, Practice Managers, and Quality Improvement Professionals

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners
December 19, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Acumen, LLC to develop episode-based cost measures for their potential use in the cost performance category of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). As part of...

2020 Eligible Clinician Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Flows

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners, Quality
December 19, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2020 performance period electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) flows for eligible clinicians and eligible professionals, which provide: An additional resource to help you...

CMS Quality Payment Program: Check Your Final 2019 MIPS Eligibility Status

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 12, 2019
Your eligibility status may have changed for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Check the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool to view your final 2019 eligibility status:...

Quality Payment Program: MIPS Low-Volume Threshold Criteria for 2019

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 12, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added a third low-volume threshold criterion for determining Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligibility for 2019. Clinicians and groups are excluded from MIPS if they: Billed $90,...

The Society Submits Written Testimony to Ways and Means in Response to Aging Hearing

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Antipsychotics, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
The Society recently submitted written testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee in relation to a recent hearing entitled “Caring for Aging Americans.” The Society’s comments focused around the use of antipsychotics, telemedicine in long-term...

Direct Contracting Risk-Sharing Options: Submit Letter of Intent by December 10

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
Direct contracting creates a variety of pathways for health care providers and suppliers to take on financial risk supported by enhanced flexibilities. Because the model reduces burden, supports a focus on complex, chronically and seriously ill...

Quality Payment Program: MIPS Exception Applications due December 31

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
If you are interested in applying for a Promoting Interoperability Hardship Exception or Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception for the 2019 Performance Year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), you must submit your...

Quality Payment Program: 2019 APM Incentive Payment Details

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Alternative Payment Models (APM), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
December 5, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program website has been recently updated to include 2019 Alternative Payment Model (APM) incentive payment details. See the CMS fact sheet for more information.