Healthcare Innovation November 5, 2019
Darryl Drevna, AMGA’s senior director for regulatory affairs, shares his perspectives on thorny issues in the MIPS Program that are frustrating practicing physicians who trying to shift into value-based healthcare
On November 4, the Alexandria-based American Medical Group Association (AMGA) posted a press release to its website, commenting on changes being made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in two different areas—coding requirements for evaluation and management (E/M) services on the part of practicing physicians; and changes being made to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), both of which came in the form of the release of a final rule on November 1.
As the press release stated, “AMGA supports the Centers...