Fierce Health Payers October 3, 2019
After an appeal from nine physician organizations, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says doctors and other healthcare professionals who qualify for an advanced alternative payment model (APM) performance bonus should get their money soon.
CMS announced in a fact sheet (PDF) that incentive payments will go out soon to clinicians who earned a performance bonus as part of their participation in advanced APMs in 2017. CMS said it would begin paying the incentive payments, due for the first year of its Quality Payment Program, starting this month.
The medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians, sent a letter (PDF) to CMS last month expressing concerns about a long delay in...
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