Healthcare Informatics October 24, 2017
The 2018 final rule for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (QPP) should drop any day now, so this is as good a time as ever to review the proposed rule and see what might change in the finalized version.
Released in June, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for year two of the QPP, inclusive of two payment paths that eligible Medicare-participating physicians could partake in—MIPS (the Merit-based Incentive Payment System) and the advanced alternative payment model (APM) track—aimed to provide continued relief for physicians, especially smaller practice doctors who many folks believe could struggle to comply to a complex reporting program.
In all, in construction of the 2018 proposed rule, CMS said it engaged more than...