MedPage Today July 12, 2018
Includes many provisions aimed at easing provider paperwork burden
WASHINGTON — With great fanfare, officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday announced a number of proposed initiatives in the 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule that they say will ease administrative burdens on providers.
“I spent part of the last year traveling the country and visiting clinicians in different care settings,” CMS administrator Seema Verma said on a conference call with reporters. “One thing we heard time and time again is that time spent on paperwork is time away from patients … We heard too many stories about provider burnout. It became clear to me that if we were going to be serious about improving quality...
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