RamaOnHealthcare December, 2016
What OIG Found From our analysis, we identified CMS’s five key management priorities regarding the agency’s planning and early implementation of the QPP. Early on, CMS staff decided that clinicians’ acceptance of the QPP, and readiness to participate in it, would be the most critical factor to ensuring the program’s success. This focus on clinicians informed CMS’s decisionmaking regarding its other management priorities, including: • adopting integrated internal business practices to accommodate a flexible, user-centric approach; • developing information technology (IT) systems that support and streamline clinician participation; • developing flexible and transparent MIPS...