Healthcare IT News September 21, 2017
The physician payment programs are more workable for than preceding federal models, but some unrealistic expectations are emerging.
With the Merit-Based Incentive System and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the federal government is beginning to harmonize programs to simplify reporting, decrease the number of measures and potential penalties – and adding an upside opportunity for the solid performers.
“We have a better framework to go forward,” said David Barbe, MD, president of the American Medical Association and a family physician from Mountain Grove, Missouri. “It’s increasingly looking at the value that care brings. That can be in terms of economic savings. It can be in terms of improved quality. It can be in terms of better interaction between...
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