Modern Healthcare January 4, 2018
Large health systems say the CMS’s efforts to make MACRA less burdensome on small providers leaves them behind and they’re suggesting the agency overhaul how the new payment model tracks physician performance to make it easier.
Providers expressed the concern in comments to the CMS. The agency asked for that feedback on the interim final rule for the second year of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
Last fall, the CMS announced that physician practices with less than $90,000 in Medicare revenue or fewer than 200 unique Medicare patients per year did not have to comply with MACRA. That move excluded about 134,000 providers. The original threshold for exemption was $30,000 in Medicare revenue or fewer than 100 Medicare...
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