Modern Healthcare August 26, 2017
If providers in Advanced Alternative Payment Models don’t meet certain requirements by the end of the month, they’ll see a reduction in their Medicare payments in 2019.If providers do meet the requirements, they will be eligible for incentive payments as qualifying APM participants under the Quality Payment Program, Medicare’s reimbursement system for physicians enacted by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reimbursement Act.
Clinicians who don’t meet the thresholds needed to qualify for the Advanced APM track of MACRA’s Quality Payment Program by Aug. 31 will be herded into the Merit-based Incentive Payment System for the 2017 performance year and corresponding 2019 payment year.
To successfully count as an Advanced APM, a group’s participants must use certified electronic health record technology,...
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