4 changes to payment models physician groups want from CMS

HealthExec December 18, 2017
John Gregory

Physician groups and value-based care proponents have written to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, asking for the agency to focus its efforts to promote the transition to value amongst independent physician practices.

Verma has cited concerns for smaller practices in many of her initiatives and agency’s regulations since taking the helm at CMS, such as exempting more clinicians from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for 2018 and reducing process-focused quality measures. She’s also touched on concerns that CMS policies under the Obama administration encouraged the wave of consolidation in the healthcare industry, which the groups cited for advocating for their suggested changes to assist smaller practices.

“Physicians—especially independent physician practices—are the lynch pin of our nation’s health care system,”...

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