RevCycle Intelligence April 20, 2017
A federal committee approved two alternative payment model proposals for limited-scale testing as MACRA physician-focused payment models while rejecting one model.
Two proposed physician-focused payment models will go to the HHS Secretary for possible limited-scale testing, while one model was stopped from becoming a potential alternative payment model under MACRA, the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) recently announced.
The committee approved Project Sonar, a gastroenterology-focused alternative payment model, and a bundled payment model for surgical episodes called the American College of Surgeons (ACS)-Brandeis Advanced Alternative Payment Model (Advanced APM).
However, the group did not recommend the COPD and Asthma Monitoring Project proposed by the Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Disease and Critical Care Consultants Medical Group.
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