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Advancing Care Information: ONC 2014 vs 2015 Edition EHRs

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

Diana Strubler takes a break from the weekly blog recap to talk about reporting on the ACI portion of MIPS in 2017 versus 2018.  Watch her video below. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: ACI, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, APM, CEHRT, CMS, Diana Strubler, EHR, electronic health record, FLA, Health Information Exchange (HIE), MACRA, MACRA Final Rule, MACRA summary, Meaningful Use, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MU, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), ONC, Physician Quality Reporting System, Terry Ketchersid

Advancing Care Information (ACI): Video Recap

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 17, 2016 Leave a Comment

In the second Acumen MACRA video, Diana Strubler walks us through Advancing Care Information, based on November 14's blog post Advancing Care Information: A Guide Through the New MU. Be sure to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: ACI, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, APM, CEHRT, CMS, Diana Strubler, FLA, Health Information Exchange (HIE), MACRA, MACRA Final Rule, MACRA summary, Meaningful Use, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MU, Physician Quality Reporting System, Terry Ketchersid

MIPS Tip Tuesday

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 15, 2016 Leave a Comment

MIPS Tip Tuesday: Did you know that clinicians can choose a 90-day reporting period in 2016, 2017 AND 2018? As you may have heard, the Hospital OPPS final rule announced that all providers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series, MIPS Tagged With: ACI, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Diana Strubler, MACRA, MACRA Final Rule, MIPS, ONC, Terry Ketchersid

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

Advanced APMs: Return of the FLA

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
November 7, 2016 2 Comments

Participant

Ah, the day before the election. Hard to believe that sideshow known as the Presidential race is coming to a close. As I’ve mentioned before, we tend to steer clear of religion and politics in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MACRA Series Tagged With: ACO, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, Advanced APM, APM, CMS, ESCO, FLA, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MSSP, MU, Physician value-based payment modifier, PQRS, QPP, quality payment program, Terry Ketchersid, TLA, VPM

APM Redux

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
August 22, 2016 2 Comments

Most clinicians will be subject to MIPS

Last weekend I spent some time with family in the cool weather of the Appalachian Mountains. While there I had the opportunity to go fly fishing. It’s important to understand that yours truly is not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative Payment Model (APM), Blog Tagged With: AAPM, ACI, ACO, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, alternative payment models, APM, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), clinical practice improvement activities, CMS, CPIA, ESCO, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MSSP, Partial QP, resource use, Terry Ketchersid

Quality: The Overnight MACRA Sensation

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
May 30, 2016 1 Comment

Another trip around the sun

As I get older, I find the days on the calendar move by faster, even though I am certain the earth still spins at the same speed it did last year. Reminds me of the lyrics from that classic Pink Floyd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, APM, clinical practice improvement activities, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, NPRM, P4P, P4R, physician value-based payment modifier (VM), Pink Floyd, PQRS, PQRS measures group, QCDR, resource use, RPA, Terry Ketchersid, VM

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