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CMS reweighting MIPS 2020 cost performance category
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will reweight the cost performance category for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System from 15% to 0% for the 2020 performance period — which affects 2022 payments — due to the impact of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and redistribute the 15% prescribed weight to another performance category or categories.
CMS Releases CY 2021 Final Rule for Physician Fee Schedule Payments
Summary of CMS’ CY 2021 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule
CMS announces automatic exception policy for MIPS individual clinicians
Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will apply an automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to all clinicians participating as individuals in the Quality Payment Program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System for the 2020 performance period, the agency announced.
Special Bulletin: CMS Releases CY 2021 Proposed Rule for Physician Fee Schedule Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Aug. 3 issued a proposed rule that would update physician fee schedule (PFS) payments for calendar year (CY) 2021. The rule also included several proposals to implement year five of the quality payment program (QPP) created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.
CMS extends deadline for clinicians to apply for COVID-19 MIPS exception
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. ET the deadline for clinicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System to apply for an extreme and uncontrollable circumstances exception to reweight the MIPS performance categories.
CMS, OIG Finalize Changes to Stark Law and Anti-kickback Statute to Encourage Value-Based Care and Reduce Technical Trip Wires
Summary of two final rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) that will modernize and make important changes to physician self-referral (Stark law) and federal Anti-kickback statute (AKS) regulations.
Special Bulletin: Highlights of HHS Final Regulations to Modernize Stark and Anti-kickback
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Nov.