The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) could transform healthcare, but if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) doesn’t follow congressional intent with its regulations, compliance could become even more complicated than the current system. This is according to 18 congressional members in a recent letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt […]

Get ready — MACRA is definitely going live Jan. 1, and will most certainly have a huge impact on your claims payments. Before you jump on the MACRA bandwagon, you need to make sure that the program really applies to you. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it would release […]

On Sept. 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made available for download your 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Feedback Reports and 2015 Annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRUR). These reports lay out your positive, neutral or negative payment adjustments under the PQRS and Value-Based Modifier programs, respectively, for your 2017 […]

UPDATE: In response to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt’s Sept. 8 announcement that the agency would not delay MACRA implementation, leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee issued a statement Sept. 9 indicating that they were pleased that CMS was moving forward with options for compliance with the […]