Tag: Comments
On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the CY 2020 Proposed Rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payme...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) updates the Child and Adult Core Sets of quality measures annually. The Core Sets are important sources of information for CMS to assess the quality of services beneficiaries receive and improve Medicaid an...
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) is soliciting comments on the Eye Care Emergency Department Avoidance (EyEDA) Model, received from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Comments will be accepted unti...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released additional materials, including study data, related to a previous proposed rule regarding Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) audits. In November 2019, CMS proposed a rule that would ...
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) is soliciting comments on the Oncology Care Model 2.0, its newest proposal received from the Community Oncology Alliance. Comments will be accepted until July 1, 2019 and should...
On June 6, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking new ideas from the public on how to continue the progress of the Patients over Paperwork initiative. Launched in 2017, the Patients over Pa...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for comments on the information collected for the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive Demonstration (MAQI). CMS will be collecting and reviewing informati...
The Department of Health and Human Services extended the comment period for two proposed interoperability rules to June 3, a 30-day extension from the original May 3 deadline. Many industry and stakeholder groups had requested the extension due to th...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) is forming a Technical Expert Panel (TEP) to oversee a review of measures and concepts related to medical opioid use; and opioid use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery. Nominations are being accepted until Ma...
The Department of Health and Human Services released a request for information (RFI) about how Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules could be modified to further the Secretary’s goal of promoting coordinated care. The ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is soliciting comments on two inpatient quality measures they are adapting for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS):
On November 28, 2018, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a draft strategy to help reduce administrative and regulatory burden on clinicians caused by the use of health information technology (health IT) such as electr...
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) released Preliminary Review Team (PRT) reports for two physician-focused payment model (PFPM) proposals that are on the agenda for the public meeting scheduled for December 10, 2...
The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released a request for information (RFI) regarding provider and plan approaches to improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with social risk factors. The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care T...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a request for information (RFI) seeking stakeholder input on potential new safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute and exceptions to the beneficiary inducement prohibition in the Civil Monetary Penalt...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a request for information (RFI) on criteria to measure the performance of certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT), as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. Feedback receive...
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) requests stakeholder feedback on: (1) a new process PTAC established for providing initial feedback to individuals and stakeholder entities who submit models to PTAC; (2) the r...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is pursuing a demonstration project, the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement (MAQI) demonstration, which would allow clinicians involved in risk contracts in Medicar...
As part of its Patients Over Paperwork initiative, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an analysis of comments submitted in response to nine Requests for Information (RFIs) included in the Medicare FFS payment rules. CMS r...
On Friday, December 18, 2015 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a draft Quality Measure Development Plan. A provision in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) requires CMS to release a draft plan...
