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Advancing Care Information: A Guide Through the New MU

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 14, 2016 4 Comments

2017 MIPS composite score

Let’s go ahead and take a collective sigh of relief because this blog post has nothing to do with the election! Instead, I will talk about another dreaded popular topic on the regulatory front – … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: ACI, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, APM, CEHRT, CMS, Diana Strubler, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MU, Physician Quality Reporting System, Terry Ketchersid

Advanced APM’s: Video Recap

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Join us every Thursday, for the remainder of the year, as we present the third segment of our weekly Acumen MACRA series with a video recap of Monday's post. Today, Diana Strubler, Policy and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: ACO, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, Advanced APM, APM, Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, Diana Strubler, EHR, electronic health record, EMR, ESCO, FLA, Health IT, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MSSP, MU, nephrology, Physician value-based payment modifier, PQRS, QPP, quality payment program, regulatory, Terry Ketchersid, TLA, VPM

MIPS Tip Tuesday

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 8, 2016 2 Comments

Today we begin our special MIPS Tips segment, as part of our MACRA Series here on the Acumen Blog.  Join us every Tuesday for the remainder of the year to check out our MIPS Tip for the week. MIPS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: Advanced APM, Diana Strubler, MACRA, MACRA Final Rule, Medicare Part B, MIPS, MIPS Tip

MACRA: A Summary of the Final Rule

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
October 17, 2016 6 Comments

elephant

Just when I thought it was going to be a quiet weekend—BOOM!—the 2,204-page Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) final rule hit my inbox on Friday morning. I was surprised to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: ACI, Advanced APM, advancing care information, APM, CEHRT, clinical practice improvement activities, CMS, CPIA, Diana Strubler, Final Rule, Hardship Exemption, MACRA, MACRA Final Rule, MACRA summary, MACRA: A Summary of the Final Rule, Meaningful Use, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MIPS Composite Performance Score, QPP, QPs, resource use

Meaningful Use: Still Kicking in 2016!

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
October 3, 2016 2 Comments

EP objectives

Can you believe that we only have a few months left of using the term “Meaningful Use” before it’s retired? There’s a small (and I mean small) part of me that will mourn the loss of the term—mainly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use Tagged With: ACI category, advancing care information, alternate exclusions, CMS, Diana Strubler, hardship exemptions, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MU, OPPS final rule, performance score, threshold-based measures

Quality: Beyond Measure?

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
September 5, 2016 1 Comment

How can we best measure quality in health care?

Happy Labor Day! This holiday not only honors the American labor movement, it also unofficially represents a goodbye to summer, the start of football season, the end of wearing white (no judging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, P4R Tagged With: CMS, Daniel Pink, Dialysis 5-Star rating, Diana Strubler, Journal of American Medical Association, MU, P4P, P4R, pay for performance, pay for reporting, PQRS, Robert Berenson, Urban Institute

Potential MACRA Delay Ahead?: Preparing for a Time of Uncertainty

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
July 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

Uncertainty Just Ahead sign

If trying to follow regulatory programs has you feeling like a 20-year-old trying to catch Pokémon, join the club! However, for those just trying to see patients and run a practice, it is extremely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, ACO, Acumen PQRS Registry, advancing care information, Andy Slavitt, CMS, Diana Strubler, EHR Regulatory Relief Act, ESCO, MACRA, Meaningful Use, medicare access and CHIP reauthorization act, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MU, PQRS, QRUR, Senator John Thune, Stage 2, value-based payment modifier, VM

The Anatomy of a Certified EHR: What to Expect in 2018

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
July 4, 2016 2 Comments

Bare EHR definition

No, your eyes are not betraying you…this week’s blog topic is not on MACRA, MIPs, or APMs! With a long holiday weekend coming to a close, I thought I would give you a bit of a reprieve from the MACRA … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Future of EHRs

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