Modern Healthcare August 23, 2017
The CMS’ attempts to reduce regulatory burden on small practices by exempting them from new Medicare requirements may actually leave them behind in the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care, providers say.
Earlier this summer, the CMS proposed that physician practices with less than $90,000 in Medicare revenue or fewer than 200 unique Medicare patients per year would be exempt from reporting under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act starting in 2018.
The move will exclude about 134,000 more providers from complying with the quality reporting program. The original threshold for exemption, which is in place for 2017, is $30,000 or fewer than 100 Medicare patients.
CMS officials claimed the change stemmed from...
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