Connected Care Watch November 7, 2017
At 1,653 pages, the final rule on the Quality Payment Program released last week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) isn’t exactly light reading, which is slightly ironic considering the document is the agency’s blueprint for easing the burdens of bureaucracy and red tape that many physicians say are sapping their time and energy.
But the document covers a lot of ground, including a number of changes to the Quality Payment Program (QPP), an initiative created under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) to reward physicians for delivering better-value care and more successful patient outcomes, rather than compensating them based on the traditional fee-for-service model.
Fortunately, CMS has made available a couple of...
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