Modern Healthcare January 23, 2018
Doctors for the second year in a row have been left waiting to find out whether they will have to comply with a new quality payment system outlined in MACRA.
Although the CMS finalized a rule late last year to exempt more small providers from complying with MACRA, the agency still has yet to notify doctors whether they’re expected to report under MACRA’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System.
Physicians who haven’t received their formal notices have been left vulnerable; if they do nothing, the CMS can later determine they were on the hook to comply with MIPS.
The CMS estimates that 934,000 providers will be exempt from MIPS reporting; that includes physician practices with less than $90,000 in Medicare revenue or...
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