HealthLeaders Media November 6, 2017
AMGA, ACP, and CAPG note plusses and minuses of the final MACRA rule; groups optimistic that CMS will listen to their concerns.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)on November 2, and doctors’ groups have responded with mixed reviews.
A key change announced by CMS—increasing the threshold for participation in its Quality Payment Program (QPP) to $90,000 in Medicare Part B total allowed charges or 200 Medicare Patient Encounters—means that an additional 123,000 clinicians needn’t be concerned with the QPP in 2018 and beyond.
While CMS states that the change is intended to...
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