MACRA, MIPS, MU, & ECQMs

Articles and education for healthcare professionals on health IT policies related to Meaningful Use (MU), MACRA, MIPS and other related programs.

Visualized: Mashing up 2015 Edition Certification and Progress Attestation Requirements Visualized: Mashing up 2015 Edition Certification and Progress Attestation Requirements

Visualized: Mashing up 2015 Edition Certification and Progress Attestation Requirements

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Have you ever wondered what a health information technology (health IT) developer’s share of meaningful use eligible hospitals looked like compared to its peers? How about the same for eligible clinicians under the Quality Payment Program (QPP)? Well, look no further. Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published two […]

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Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)

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Important changes to how Medicare pays those who give care to Medicare beneficiaries

From the CMS YouTube page: During this MLN Connects® video, CMS subject matter experts provide an overview of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which makes three important changes to how Medicare pays those who give care to Medicare beneficiaries: 
  1. Ending the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula that determines Medicare payments for services
  2. Making a new framework to reward health care providers for giving better care 
  3. Combining our existing quality reporting programs into one new system
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