Healthcare Finance News February 23, 2017
At HIMSS17, clinicians get a primer on details of two of the more IT-focused components. Orlando– The rule was only finalized four months ago, but we’re already in the initial performance year for the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System, which ushered in sweeping changes for how clinicians get reimbursed as part of MACRA. On Tuesday at HIMSS17, two officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offered a detailed primer on two of the more technology-intensive components of the program.
With the new payment framework, “clinicians can pick their pace,” said Molly MacHarris, program lead at the Quality Measurement & Value-Based Incentive Group at CMS.
The agency has heard from stakeholders that “we were moving a little bit too...
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