RevCycle Intelligence October 19, 2017
Congress should lengthen MACRA implementation flexibilities for another three years to ensure eligible clinicians will succeed, stakeholders advised.
Over 100 medical organizations recently called on House Representatives to extend MACRA implementation flexibilities that allow HHS leaders to gradually implement full program requirements. The flexibilities should go on for another three years.
Through CMS, HHS extended several MACRA implementation flexibilities for the first performance year. For example, the federal department designed MACRA’s Merit-Based Payment Incentive System (MIPS) to include four performance categories: quality, cost and resource use, Advancing Care Information, and Improvement Activities.
However, CMS will not factor cost and resource use performance into MIPS composite scores for the first performance year. The federal agency explained that a flawed attribution method...
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