Tag Archives: QUALITY PAYMENT PROGRAM

Back to School Rules Recap: Hospital and Physician Cheat Sheet on What CMS Did This Summer

By Kristen McDermott Woodrum, Ernessa McKie and Jeff Murray on August 25, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized

Summer was no vacation for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The agency released a series of significant rules that signal the nature and pace of CMS Medicare payment and policy changes for hospitals and physicians under the Trump administration. For anyone who did take a vacation, this article provides a rulemaking cheat … Continue Reading

Bundles, MACRA and the Trump Regulatory Freeze

By Kristen McDermott Woodrum on March 7, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized

In the final months of the Obama administration, CMS released rules of significant import to healthcare providers, including a final rule explaining how the Quality Payment Program mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) will work and a final rule (Final EPM Rule) that implements two new cardiac bundled payment … Continue Reading