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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

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

MIPS and the Small Practice

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
May 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

Table 64

Last week Dr. Dugan Maddux brought us a wonderful display of colorful images to help us digest the contents of the MACRA proposed ruling. At a high-level view, the program initially doesn’t seem like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: Andy Slavitt, APM, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, MACRA, medicare part, MIPS, MU Stage 2, Physician Compare, PQRS, quality payment program, Terry Ketchersid

MACRA in Images

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
May 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

MIPS eligible clinicians

A lot has been published about MACRA in the past weeks. The Quality Payment Program Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was published on April 27, 2016, and the Federal Register Proposed Rule … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: ACI, Advanced Alternative Payment Model, advancing care information, alternative payment models, APM, APM participant, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, eligible clinicians, Federal Register Proposed Rule, MACRA, Medicare Part B, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, NPRM, QP, quality payment program, Quality Payment Program Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Quality Performance Category, Terry Ketchersid

How the MACRA Proposed Rule “Replaced” Meaningful Use

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
May 2, 2016 1 Comment

I’m not sure what’s worse, reading the 962-page MACRA proposed ruling while in Hawaii or realizing CMS released a gigantic document that still needs to be finalized before the first surveillance year … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MIPS Tagged With: ACI, advancing care information, alternative payment models, clinical practice improvement activities, CMS, composite performance score, CPIA, CPS, Diana Strubler, Dr. Ketchersid, MACRA, Meaningful Use, medicare access and CHIP reauthorization act, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, MU, performance score, PQRS, quality payment program, Stage 3, VM

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