Cloud-based service providers (CSPs), like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, offer online access to shared computing resources. As such, they have developed a “shared responsibility model” for how CSPs and companies that use their cloud services will share responsibilities when it comes to ensuring security in the cloud. A lot of companies believe that, […]
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (“MACRA”) Final Rule published late last year implements CMS’ new payment approach for physicians and other Medicare Part B eligible clinicians under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (“MIPS”) and looks to steer clinicians towards more “at risk” advanced alternative payment models (“Advanced APMs”). In light of some Congressional […]
The Affordable Care Act has withstood 62 repeal attempts by the House of Representatives and several challenges brought to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, with Donald Trump as President and a new Republican-led House and Senate, full or partial repeal of the ACA seem likely to occur sometime in 2017, perhaps with a delayed effective […]
CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt recently announced that CMS would provide new physician reporting options for the first year of the MACRA program starting January 1, 2017. In response to concerns about the MACRA Proposed Rule, including how excessive reporting can distract from patient care, Administrator Slavitt outlined four options for first-year reporting, which are […]
On July 1, CMS finalized new MACRA rules that significantly expand how qualified data entities will be allowed to share or sell analyses of Medicare and private claims data to providers, insurers, employers, and others who, in turn, can use the data to support improved care. In announcing the new rules, CMS’ Chief Data Officer, […]
The MACRA Proposed Rule details CMS’ new payment approach, which emphasizes and rewards the use of interoperable health information technology by physicians and other Medicare Part B clinicians and that steers clinicians toward alternative payment models. The Proposed Rule would establish key parameters for the new Quality Payment Program, a framework that includes the Merit-based […]