Wow, time flies. We’ve reached the last quarter of 2018, and there are some important things to do in the last few months of this year to finish up 2017 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and prepare to report your 2018 performance results.
The MOST IMPORTANT item to do:
Review your 2017 MIPS Performance Report. Sign into the Quality Payment Program … Read the rest
When CMS released the final ruling for the MIPS program last month, there was a slight sigh of relief as the cost category was assigned a 0% weight factor for the 2017 performance year. With the MIPS “pick your pace” concept, it will be extremely easy and very tempting for eligible clinicians and groups to overlook the cost category in 2017, since it will have … Read the rest
QPP Greetings! It’s not too early to start preparing for MIPS reporting in 2017. There are four categories in the MIPS program – Quality, Advancing Care Information, Cost, and the new program category, Improvement Activities. These new improvement activities were added as a CMS strategy to achieve the goals of better, smarter, and healthier care using a patient centered approach.… Read the rest
If you missed our 2016 MU End of Year Review webinar on 12/8, here is the link to the recording and presentation slides.
The following topics were covered in this webinar –
For the 2017 reporting year, the MIPS Quality Category will account for 60% of the overall MIPS performance score. The Quality category replaces PQRS that eligible clinicians may already be familiar with.
Most participants will report 6 quality measures, including one outcome measure, for at least 90 days in order be eligible for a possible positive adjustment. For groups reporting … Read the rest
If you haven’t registered yet, please Register Now for a webinar on Thursday, December 8, 1-2 pm MST for a review of all 2016 Meaningful Use tasks.
We will review the following topics in this webinar –
As you have probably heard, starting in 2017 the Medicare EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use) will become part of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) under the MACRA law. The Medicaid EHR Incentive Program will remain as is, and will be a separate program.
There are a lot of questions out there about the Quality Payment Program. HTS will be … Read the rest
Let’s revisit Eligibility –
The following clinicians are considered eligible clinicians for the 2017 performance year –
Let’s clarify, “right off the bat”, that reporting Measure Groups is only available if reporting individually and using the Registry submission method. It is not available if you have chosen GPRO, but is available if you are in a group and are still electing to report individually within the group TIN.
A measure group is defined as a subset of individual PQRS measures … Read the rest
We are almost through the 3rd quarter of the 2016 reporting year. Hopefully you are tracking your performance on the MU requirements (see blog posted 7/16 for a complete list of tasks for MU).
In this blog, we are committed to providing you the steps needed to get you through the meaningful use program. Because we are reaching a large … Read the rest
On April 27th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule to implement key provisions of the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) with a new approach to paying clinicians for the value and quality of care they provide.
MACRA is the law. The components of MACRA that will interest you are called the … Read the rest
