The Future of Quality Reporting and Value Based Care for All Healthcare Services The past few years have created many changes in how healthcare is provided to patients, the quality of that care and the distribution of the reimbursement for those services. These changes are a direct result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
Anesthesia Reporting of PQRS for 2016 The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is at the core of a much larger mandate that requires a significant amount of clinical data reporting. This type of accounting does not work fluidly without the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). In order to avoid a financial penalty over the…
Article 2 in a series: Ambulatory anesthesia providers resolve value-based payment issues. The first article in the series, The Ambulatory Anesthesia Value-Based World, addressed the problems associated with achieving effective results in the world of value-based payment models and ambulatory anesthesia. This report features what practitioners are doing to resolve the issues and achieve desired…
MACRA: Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act Understanding The Quality Payment Program & Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) MACRA: The Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act of 2015 is the new CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) program that consolidates together the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Value-based Modifier (VBM),…
Small practice positives and challenges regarding the implementation of MACRA There are positives and challenges for the small practice regarding the implementation of the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Small practice positives with MACRA The flexible “pick your pace of participation” route permits practices to report one active quality measure per provider for…