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SNF Provider Preview Report: Review Your Data by June 30

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Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
June 7, 2018
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports are now available; visit the Spotlights and Announcements webpage for a list of quality measures based on quarterly data. Review your performance data by June 30, prior to public display on...

Society Submits Application for MACRA Grant Funding

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality, Improvement
June 1, 2018
This week the Society took a significant step forwarding to addressing one its key strategic objectives by applying for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) MACRA quality measure funding opportunity. Earlier this year CMS issued...

Society Submits Comments on Direct Provider Contracting RFI

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Practitioners
June 1, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a request for information (RFI) asking for input on direct provider contracting (DPC) between payers and primary care or multi-specialty groups to inform potential testing of a...

Support Observation Status Legislation

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Observation Status
June 1, 2018
Congressmen Joe Courtney (D-CT), Glenn 'GT' Thompson (R-PA) and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have co-sponsored legislation to fix an arbitrary Medicare policy that excludes...

CMS Releases 2016 Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practitioners
June 1, 2018
The Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (PUF) contains summarized information on Part B services and procedures furnished to Medicare beneficiaries by physicians and other healthcare professionals. The 2016 dataset includes: Information on...

Advocacy Action Alert: Bipartisan Geriatrics Workforce Legislation Introduced in Senate

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Care Settings/Types, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
May 25, 2018
This week, Senators Susan Collins (R—Maine) and co-sponsor Senator Bob Casey (D—Pennsylvania) introduced the bipartisan Geriatrics Workforce Improve Act (S.2888) in the U.S. Senate. This bill echoes similar bipartisan legislation proposed in the U.S...

CMS Releases Annual Quality Measure Development Plan

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality
May 25, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released their 2018 Annual Report: Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) . The 2018 MDP Annual Report describes CMS activities during the previous year to advance the development of...

MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Webinar — June 12

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality, Measures
May 25, 2018
Recently, CMS announced that they changed the name of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Advancing Care Information performance category to the Promoting Interoperability performance category: This is not a new performance category...

Join CMS at a 2018 QCDR Measures Workgroup to Learn More about 2019 QCDR Measure Development, Processes, and Expectations

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners, Quality, Measures
May 25, 2018
On Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar that will provide an overview of Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) measure development, processes and expectations. This...

House Ways & Means Committee Passes Opioid Related Bills

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Medicare, Medication, Opioids, Practitioners
May 18, 2018
This week, the House Ways & Means Committee approved seven bipartisan pieces of legislation focused on reducing opioid abuse in Medicare. The package would expand coverage for medication-assisted treatment, promote non-opioid therapies for pain...