Modern Healthcare November 16, 2015
Hospital and physician groups are cautioning the CMS that it needs better measures before it ties physician pay to quality and outcomes.
The warnings came in letters from the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and other provider groups in response to the CMS’ request for comments on how it should structure the new physician payment policy that was included in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act passed earlier this year. The comment period ends Tuesday.
The law eliminated the rarely implemented sustainable growth-rate formula in favor of a value-based payment system to reward or limit payments to doctors under traditional fee-for-service medicine. The new merit-based incentive payment system is slated to go into effect in 2019.
The American...
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