Physicians Practice March 2, 2017
CMS foresees a world where nine out of 10 small practices will participate in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) program, which determines how Medicare physicians are reimbursed.
For those small practices thinking they can escape the program, CMS isn’t buying it. “As we build the program, our goal is to achieve a 90 percent participation rate by all clinicians. That includes small practices as well,” Jean Moody-Williams, deputy director of the center for clinical standards and quality at CMS said at this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, held in Orlando. Moody-Williams presented in a session on how small, rural, and underserved practices can adhere to the quality payment program.
Those numbers didn’t come out...