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Spotlight on the MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category

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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), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
May 18, 2018
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced that they changed the name of the MIPS Advancing Care Information performance category to the Promoting Interoperability performance category. Here are a few things you need...

Quality Payment Program: Check 2018 MIPS Clinician Eligibility at the Group Level

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
May 18, 2018
You can now log in to the CMS Quality Payment Program website to check your group’s 2018 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Log in to the feature using your Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) credentials Browse to...

House Energy & Commerce Sends 25 Opioid Bills to House Floor

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Opioids, Pain Management, Practitioners
May 10, 2018
This week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed 25 opioid related pieces of legislation to the floor of the House of Representatives. This was just the first of two mark-up hearings the committee will have on whether to send more than 50...

CMS Release SNF PPS Proposed Rule

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Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
May 3, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule on April 27, 2018 to overhaul the payment system for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). The rule would update the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (...

HHS Begins New Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force

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Medication, Opioids, Pain Management, Practitioners
May 3, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week the appointment of 28 members to the new Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force was established to propose updates to best...

CMS Announces New Name for EHR Programs and ACI Category

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Electronic Health Records (EHR)
April 26, 2018
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an overhaul and streamlining effort to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs for hospitals as well as for the Advancing Care Information performance category...

Congress Focusing on Opioids

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medication, Opioids, Practitioners
April 26, 2018
This week House and Senate committees focused on opioid legislation packages. The Senate health committee voted unanimously in favor of a package, which includes 40 bills from 38 senators. The health committee's legislation, Opioid Crisis Response...

The Society Joins Others in Urging CMS to Reduce 2018 MIPs Reporting Period

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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), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
April 19, 2018
This week, AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine joined with the American Medical Association and over 40 national medical specialty societies in urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the 2018...

Apply to Participate in the 2018 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Study on Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures to Receive Improvement Activity Credit for 2018

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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), Practitioners
April 19, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures Study, as outlined in the Quality Payment Program Year 2 final rule (CMS 5522- FC). CMS is conducting this study to:...

CMS Releases Updated 2018 MIPS Eligibility Tool

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Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners, Certified Medical Director
April 12, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an updated MIPS Participation Lookup Tool to check on your 2018 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Just enter your National Provider Identifier to find...