Topic
Quality Payment Program
24 published works
Waller Law Blogs
2017 MIPS Performance Feedback Reports may erroneously report 2019 Medicare payment adjustments
10.09.182017 was the first year for participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a Quality Payment Program (QPP) implemented by CMS, to award or penalize participating clinicians with regard…
Healthcare Law Blog
The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System’s Targeted Review Deadline is Upon Us: Physicians, Groups, and other Clinicians have until October 15, 2018 to Identify and Report Errors in the Calculation of their 2017 MIPS Final Scores
By Amanda Zablocki, Kenneth Yood
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it has several “prevailing concerns” regarding the accuracy of the 2017 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scoring data that…
Health Care Law Matters
Proposed Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program in 2019
CMS recently issued its proposed changes to the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which include a controversial change to the reimbursement rates for Level 2-5 evaluation and management (E/M) services…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Modifies Medicare Physician Quality Payment Program Rules for 2018
CMS has issued a final rule with comment period making changes to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for 2018, the second performance year for the reformed physician payment framework mandated…
Healthcare Law Blog
MACRA Quality Payment Program Update
By Erica Kraus, Kenneth Yood, Matthew Goldman
On June 20, 2017, CMS released its proposed rule updating MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (“QPP”) for CY 2018. At over 1,000 pages, the rule might not do much to simplify…
Health Care Law Matters
CMS Predicts that Physicians participating in Advanced APMs in 2017 will receive a 5% Incentive Payment in 2019
Under CMS's new Quality Payment Program, which will adjust Medicare Part B payments starting in 2019 based on data from this year, physicians and other eligible clinicians must qualify for…
Health Law Update
CMS Proposes CY 2018 Quality Payment Program Policy Changes that Signal Intent to Reduce the Pace and Burdens of MACRA
By Kristen McDermott Woodrum, Ernessa McKie
On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a much anticipated rule outlining proposed payment and policy changes to the new Medicare Part B Quality Payment…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Proposes Changes for Second Year of Medicare Physician Quality Payment Program
CMS has proposed new regulations to continue implementing the “Quality Payment Program” (QPP) -- the new Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS) update framework mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP…
Iowa Healthcare Law Blog
MACRA’s Quality Payment Program Has Gone Live
By Jeanine Freeman, J.D., Brick Gentry P.C.
MACRA'S QUALITY PAYMENT PROGRAM HAS GONE LIVE – ACTION REQUIRED IN 2017 TO AVOID PART B PAYMENT REDUCTIONS IN 2019 - QPP BASICS TO KNOW IN GETTING STARTED A new…
Health Care Law Matters
Health Law Alert – Medicare Quality Payment Program
We recently issued a Health Law Alert on the Medicare Quality Payment Program, focusing specifically on what physicians and their medical practices need to know to be in compliance with…