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Primary care practices will need to adopt some elements of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in order to thrive under the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). That’s the view of Nitin Damle, MD, FACP, a Rhode Island...
Continuing our blog series on CMS’s massive proposed rule for the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), we dedicate this post to examining the Advance Payment Model (APM) provisions of the...
The passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) just over a year ago signaled a strong and unique bipartisan agreement to move towards value-based care, but until recently, many of the details surrounding how it...
Editor's Note:  From young physicians considering their first practice model to experienced doctors contemplating a change, the advantages and disadvantages of a new situation can be overwhelming. For this second installment in a series...
A new review of the evidence suggests that patient-centered medical homes can reduce unnecessary use of health-care services and thus health-care costs. Conducted by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a nonprofit membership...
A few years ago, Luberta Whitfield suffered a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. The wheelchair-bound 87-year-old has emphysema and diet-controlled diabetes, is dependent on oxygen, and recently tore the right rotator cuff on her...
CMS issued the 962-page proposed rule Wednesday for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act to reform physician Medicare payments in the wake of the repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula. The proposed rule was met with...
The mother ship has landed. On Wednesday, April 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated proposed rule that would establish key parameters for the new Quality Payment Program, a framework...
By: Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr. Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Seven years ago, Congress passed a law to spur the country to...
April 27 — A regulation proposed April 27 by the CMS would start the move toward a two-track doctor payment system under Medicare beginning in 2019. The goal is to allow physicians who offer higher quality care to be paid more, Andy...
CMS’s new primary care payment model represents an opportunity for physicians practices experienced in care redesign to be compensated for those efforts. It signals to all groups that it’s time to get serious about improving outcomes....
For more than two decades Congress and the federal government have wrestled with how to pay physicians in the Medicare program, which covers forty-seven million Americans. In 2014 Medicare paid physicians and other clinicians around $138...
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a bold move to accelerate the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) program, news that I have been waiting on for a long time. To provide a bit of background, CPC is a...
Starting in 2019, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will change how they pay physicians in a profound way. Unfortunately, the details are complicated and confusing, and many of the particulars have yet to be worked out, which...
A new survey published this month in the American Journal of Managed Care found that providers who had adopted EHRs in 2012 were significantly more likely than non-users to engage in population health management, patient communication, and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model, a new multi-payer patient-centered primary care model which aims to allow providers to deliver flexible, individualized...
Six years after President Obama’s health reforms became law, officials in his administration told POLITICO they are launching the largest-ever initiative to transform primary care in America, an effort to give doctors more flexibility and...
More than six years after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was first signed into law, President Barack Obama on Monday announced plans to address what many had hoped the act would do all along: move the nation's health-care system away from a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2016 Statement Attributable to: Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH President & CEO Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative PCPCC Applauds Federal Government’s New & Largest-Ever Multipayer Initiative to...
CMS launches largest-ever multi-payer initiative to improve primary care in America New Affordable Care Act initiative, designed to improve quality and cost, gives doctors and patients more control over health care delivery The Centers...

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