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  • What should you know about Medicare's new quality payment program?

    Tags: Quality improvement program, medicare, TMF, APMs, MIPS, QRUR, CMS, PQRS

    By Suzie Buhr, BSN, RN, CPHQ
    Quality Improvement Consultant for TMF Health Quality Institute

     

    Just when your physician practice successfully participated in the Physician Quality Reporting System or achieved Meaningful Use with your electronic health record, along comes a new payment program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services. Beginning next year, your practice will be evaluated for the data you report in 2017, which will affect payments in 2019. The good news is by participating in PQRS and meaningful use now, you are moving in the right direction. The work you are doing for those programs will help you transition to participating in either the Merit-based Incentive Payment System or the Alternative Payment Model program. What do you need to know now to prepare for the transition?

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