Healthcare Finance News November 10, 2017
America’s Health Insurance Plans said it supports MACRA alternative payment models and quality payment program initiatives, including the ability for clinicians to form virtual groups to qualify for the merit-based incentive payment system.
Solo practitioners and small group practices of 10 or fewer clinicians may join virtual groups that will be scored on a combined performance for quality and cost. Clinicians are on a December 1 deadline to form virtual groups for the 2018 reporting period.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sees virtual groups as a way to spread-out and ease the reporting burden for small practices.
The American Medical Association supports it, saying it applauds...
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