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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

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

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

MIPS Easy Button…Trick or Treat?

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
October 31, 2016 4 Comments

Trick or treat?

Halloween! Can you believe it? All across the country this evening youngsters will don costumes in search of Treats, adults will shepherd their kids through neighborhoods, or stay behind to distribute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, MIPS Tagged With: ACI, Advanced APM, advancing care information, Andy Slavitt, clinical practice improvement activities, CPIA, Diana Strubler, ESCO, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, RPA, Terry Ketchersid

MACRA on the Menu

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
October 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

MACRA on the Menu

In last week’s Acumen blog Diana tackled highlights of the MACRA Final Rule released on October 14. She noted that the 2,398-page document is overwhelming and we are going to need to “eat the elephant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: ACI, advancing care information, API, application programming interface, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, Health IT, HIT, MACRA Final Rule, MARCA, Meaningful Use, Medicare Part B, MIPS, MIPS exclusions, MU, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), QPP, quality payment program, Vindell Washington

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

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