H&HN December 13, 2016
Maggie Van Dyke

The ‘new order for physician payment’ kicks in Jan. 1. Are you ready?

 

It’s easy to lose the forest for the trees in the new Medicare physician payment system, which has so many nuances and details that the related Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final rule runs 823 pages in the Federal Register. “I tell physicians it’s cumbersome, it’s bureaucratic,” says Jeffrey Steinbauer, M.D., interim chief medical officer, Baylor St. Luke’s Health Network.

Yet Steinbauer believes the Quality Payment Program, or QPP, will bring positive change. “It is absolutely the right thing to do because it looks at the value we are adding to the patient’s care.”

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