More physicians and medical practices are choosing to outsource their Centricity medical billing. According to a recently released report by Grand View Research, Inc., the demand is expected to result in the rapid growth of the medical billing outsourcing market — from $6.3 billion in 2015 to $16.9 … [Read more...]
How Your ACO Relates to MACRA APMs
Over the past few years many providers have begun to participate in an ACO of some kind. Often, these ACO models are attached to the hospital that they are most affiliated with or a larger health system. This arrangement allowed for providers to participate in a quality program while also allowing … [Read more...]
Who Is A MIPS Eligible Clinician?
Here we are half way through the first month of 2017. It is the perfect time to really dive into this MACRA/MIPS program and get a good understanding of how it will impact your practice. In previous blogs, I have discussed some of the financial impact along with details of the MIPS focus areas. … [Read more...]
MIPS Clinical Improvement Activities Study Available
Everyone is working on gathering a better understanding of the Merit-Based Incentive Program (MIPS). We are working on selecting quality measures that will work for the practice along with changes we need to put into place for the Advancing Care Information (ACI) measures. However, there is an … [Read more...]
Deeper Dive into MIPS – Quality Measures
Digging Deeper into MIPS Quality Measure Requirements I have frequently heard the idiom "The devil is in the detail" and thought this was such an interesting phrase. After spending the past several weeks leisurely reading the MACRA final rule, I have a new found appreciation of these words. The … [Read more...]
How Much Will Trump Change MACRA?
BIDMC CIO John Halamka advised providers to stay the course on MACRA, while iHealth partner Justin Barnes agreed that major changes are unlikely. But Robert Tennant of the MGMA cautioned that we won’t know until Trump takes over. Just a week after the election changes are already starting to take … [Read more...]
