Fierce Healthcare March 15, 2018
CMS plans to align quality measures between hospitals and physicians to make quality reporting easier.
Responding to continuing complaints that its Medicare physician payment system is too complicated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to make further changes this year.
One of those changes would ease the reporting burden for hospital-employed physicians under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), CMS’ Chief Medical Officer Kate Goodrich, M.D., said in a meeting this week, according to the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
CMS plans to align quality measures between hospitals and physicians to make quality reporting easier, according to the article. That will help health systems that use a single electronic health record system to report on behalf...