Physician organizations were mostly thrilled when Congress passed the “doc fix” legislation in April, replacing the despised Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate with the Merit-based Incentive Payment ...

Many stakeholders in the healthcare IT industry applaud CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt’s announcement earlier this week about the end of the meaningful use program. While Mr. Slavitt said the ...

The move from meaningful use to the value-based payment world of MACRA, MIPS, and the APMs is coming into focus. Meaningful use as we knew it changed on April 14, 2015. And what it's becoming is still ...

Over the past decade and a half, CMS introduced various performance-based payment models that transformed into today’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Under MIPS, clinicians receive ...

In October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded the archive for doctors and clinicians (DAC) on the provider data catalog (PDC) to provide access to merit-based incentive ...