CMS Finalizes the New Medicare Quality Payment Program
by ChiroCode October 17th, 2016
On October 14, HHS finalized its policy implementing the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and the Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) incentive payment provisions in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), collectively referred to as the Quality Payment Program. The new Quality Payment Program will gradually transform Medicare payments for more than 600,000 clinicians across the country, and is a major step in improving care across the entire health care system.
The final rule with comment period offers a fresh start for Medicare by centering payments around the care that is best for the patients, providing more options to clinicians for innovative care and payment approaches, and reducing administrative burden to give clinicians more time to spend with their patients, instead of on paperwork.
Accompanying the announcement is a new Quality Payment Programwebsite, which will explain the new program and help clinicians easily identify the measures most meaningful to their practice or specialty.
CMS Finalizes the New Medicare Quality Payment Program. (2016, October 17). Find-A-Code Articles. Retrieved from https://www.findacode.com/articles/cms-finalizes-the-new-medicare-quality-payment-program-34795.html
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