The Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is the product of four years of work that included input from multiple stakeholders and was signed into law on April 16, 2015, following broad ...

What Exactly Is MIPS, and How Does It Affect Me? Physicians cheered when the sustainable growth rate was repealed. But there was never a doubt that something would replace it. And now that it's almost ...

In February, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 delayed the full implementation of MIPS. Among other changes, the legislation provided for three additional years during which CMS will continue ...

As we reported last month, CMS’ proposed rule updating MACRA’s Quality Payment Program (“QPP”) for CY 2018 would extend and expand exceptions that would allow many practitioners to avoid participating ...

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services drags its feet on issuing final policy decisions, a major physician advocacy group points out that practices have been flying blind for nearly an entire ...

Two years ago next month, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Andy Slavitt, announced that the agency would begin implementing the Merit-based Incentive ...

On April 27, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that would put in place key parts of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).