Modern Healthcare October 4, 2018
The CMS has prided itself in recent months on cutting and scaling back providers’ regulatory burden, but those efforts have fallen short, according to a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
An overwhelming majority, or 86%, of respondents reported the overall regulatory burden on their medical practice has increased over the past 12 months.
“This precipitous increase in regulatory burden over the past 12 months should alarm policymakers,” Anders Gilberg, senior vice president of federal affairs at the MGMA said in a statement.
The Medicare Quality Payment Program, which includes the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, ranked as the most burdensome issue with 88% of respondents saying the burden came with little clinical benefit.
Overall, 90%...
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