Urgent Survey: Help us stop unfair payment patterns Please share your experience by responding to our brief survey by March 16. March 9, 2018 CMA, Payment, Reimbursement AB 2674, CMA, DMHC 0 0 Comment Read More »
Final Budget Agreement Provides Over $1 Billion to Improve Medi-Cal Provider Payments On Friday, the Senate and Assembly approved the state budget, which includes a Prop 56 appropriation bill that provides over $1 billion ($546 million in state funds plus a federal match) for the 2017-2018 fiscal year to improve provider payments. June 19, 2017 CMA, Medi Cal, Payment Budget, Medi-Cal 0 0 Comment Read More »
New video shows physicians how to avoid Medicare payment penalties Because the Quality Payment Program (QPP) is new this year, the San Francisco Marin Medical Society and the AMA want to make sure physicians know what they have to do to participate and the QPP’s “pick your pace” options for reporting. June 19, 2017 AMA, Medicare, Payment AMA, MACRA, Medicare, QPP, Quality Payment Program 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS announces additional opportunities to join innovative care approaches under QPP CMS announced new opportunities for clinicians to join Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) developed by the CMS Innovation Center to improve care and potentially earn an incentive payment under the Quality Payment Program created through MACRA. November 4, 2016 MACRA, Medicare, Payment APM, CMS, CMS Innovation Center, MACRA, QPP 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS Makes Major MACRA Implementation Announcement Andrew Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS, announced CMS heard concerns expressed by the AMA and other physician organizations about the proposed start date for performance reporting by physicians under the new payment systems created by the MACRA. CMS announced that the final MACRA regulation will exempt physicians from any risk of penalties if they choose one of three distinct MIPS reporting options in 2017, in addition to the option of participating in an advanced APM. September 9, 2016 AMA, MACRA, Medicare, Payment CMS, AMA, APM, MACRA, MIPS 0 0 Comment Read More »