Managed Healthcare Executive October 29, 2019
A report in Health Affairs found that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), unlike the Medicare Advantage program, saved Medicare money between 2016 and 2018. But the report’s authors noted that the savings came at a heavy cost––physicians are burned out on the elaborate and time-consuming process of reporting MSSP quality measures to CMS.
That is a big part of the reason why the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) have asked CMS to reduce the burden of MSSP quality reporting. CMS has committed to reducing the amount of burden on payers and providers, and paring down quality ratings’ overhead is a key part of that.
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based ACO Kootenai Care Network (KCN),...
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