CMS Releases Draft Plan for Transition to New Payment Models
CMS has released a Quality Measure Development Plan to serve as a strategic framework for the future of clinician quality measure development as healthcare transitions to the new Merit-based Incentive...
View ArticleCMS’s Quality Measure Development Plan: A Big Opportunity for Patient Care...
Could CMS’s development process around its new Quality Measure Development Plan provide an opening for clinicians and clinical informaticists to help shape the future they must needs live under in any...
View ArticlePeering Into 2016: Five Major Questions We’d Love to See Answered this Year
U.S. healthcare faces many significant questions, as we begin a new year. Here are five worth pondering.
View ArticleThe Demise of Meaningful Use? Not so Fast, Say Industry Leaders
While CMS’s Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said earlier this week that the meaningful use program will soon be replaced with something better, health IT leaders seem uncertain on if momentous...
View ArticleTop Ten Tech Trends: The MIPS Waiting Game
Nearly a year after MACRA was signed into law, there is still little awareness about the health IT provisions of the bill amongst the provider community. Nonetheless, healthcare leaders cannot afford...
View ArticleIs Dr. Halamka Right When He Says that MDs Might Leave Practice over Health...
When Dr. John Halamka says that excessive complexity in the required measures under the proposed new rule issued by CMS could cause him to leave medical practice, federal healthcare officials might...
View ArticleBlack Book: Small Physician Practices Foresee End of Their Independence Due...
According to a Black Book survey of 1,300 physician groups of five or fewer clinicians, more than two-thirds (67 percent) of high Medicare-volume doctors foresee the end of their independence due to...
View ArticleHHS Announces $100M in Funding to Help Small Practices with MACRA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced $20 million each year over the next five years to fund on-the-ground Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)...
View ArticleHow One Health Plan in Minnesota is Looking to Pass the MACRA Test
For payers like the Minnetonka, Minn.-headquartered Medica, working hand-in-hand with providers will be one of the biggest keys to making a successful MACRA transition.
View ArticleHealthcare Associations, Stakeholders Respond to MACRA Finalized Rule with...
The initial reaction from healthcare stakeholders to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Final Rule was one of cautious optimism.
View ArticleMGMA’s Jennifer McLaughlin on What’s Next on Healthcare Policy in Congress
Jennifer McLaughlin, senior associate director for governmental affairs at the Medical Group Management Association, shares her insights on the present moment around healthcare legislation and...
View ArticleIn the Current Policy Moment, Healthcare Leaders Search for Answers
For our editorial team, the value-based healthcare landscape, within the current policy moment in the U.S., was well worthy of being one of Healthcare Informatics’ Top Tech Trends this year.
View ArticleDo MIPS Reporting Measures Create an Even Playing Field For Clinicians?
Rita Numerof, Ph.D., co-founder and president of Numerof & Associates, believes there are concerns for providers regarding the reliability and validity of specific individual measures in MIPS.
View ArticleCMS: Clinicians Will Receive MIPS Participation Status Letters by End of May
All clinicians who will be required to participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) will receive a letter by the end of this month informing them of their participation status, the...
View ArticleCould the MedPAC Proposal Around MIPS End Up Being the Wrong Answer to the...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, has proposed that Congress eliminate the MIPS program and replace it with a new value-based purchasing program—but does that proposal make sense in...
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