Promoting Interoperability On August 2, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a 2,693-page FY 2019 Medicare IPPS and LTCH Final Rule, detailing changes to the Promoting Interoperability (PI) Program, formerly known as the EHR Incentive Program or Meaningful Use. Under the final rule, several key changes were made to the PI Program: Use of 2015 […]
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What Is Your Rank in The Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program? CMS released the Hospital Compare Preview Reports on May 2, 2018, on all hospitals that participate in Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR), Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program (OQR) and/or PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting (PCHQR) Programs. Hospitals are encouraged to access and download reports early in
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Hospital Compare website with new quality data. Programs and initiatives that were updated on the website include Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Prospective Payment System (PPS)-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting (PCHQR). What is updated on the Hospital Compare website? Hospital OQR Program
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In this industry webinar, you will hear from Michelle Bowes, CMS Regulatory Compliance Team Lead Consultant. Join us as we cover best practices for success in today’s regulatory programs such as: Organizational effort Assignment of responsibility Regulatory Program Data Collection Education Elements Understanding HOW Data is Collected in CEHRT
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Hardship exception applications for eligible hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) who were eligible to participate in the 2017 performance year of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program, also known as Meaningful Use (MU), are now available. Who does not need to submit a hardship exception application for MU 2017? Eligible hospitals and CAHs who successfully demonstrated MU in
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Preliminary feedback for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is now available for eligible clinicians (ECs) who submitted data through the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website. While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are offering feedback now, it’s important to keep in mind that it is only preliminary and not your final score.
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According to CMS, The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a reporting program that uses a combination of incentive payments and payment adjustments to promote reporting of quality information by individual eligible professionals (EPs). The program provides an incentive payment to individual EPs that satisfactorily participate or satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered
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In this industry webinar, you will hear from Reeya Patel, MPH, Associate Director of Health Insights. Did you know… The CHRONIC Care Act provides the largest boost to Federal telehealth coverage and payment in 17 years 9 in 10 employers plan to make telehealth services available to employees All 50 states + Washington DC now have
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On February 8, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 marking changes to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System(MIPS) track of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Per the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, clinicians should expect changes to the MIPS “transition” years. Transition Years 2018-2021 2018-2021 are now considered “transition” years The Cost category weight will
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MACRA Year 2 – What’s Changed … and What Hasn’t When the final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was released in October 2016, it established two payment pathways for physicians for Medicare reimbursement. In the second of this two-part post (see the first post – QPP Year 2 – what’s changed
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