PQRS and Value Based Payment Modifiers: The Path to Success

PQRS and Value Based Payment Modifiers: The Path to Success

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

Anesthesia Reporting of PQRS for 2016

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…

MACRA: The Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act of 2015

MACRA: The Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act of 2015

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),…