Get an overview of MACRA and the CMS Quality Payment Program, the consolidation of PQRS & the Medicare EHR Incentive Program

1. Overview
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (“MIPS”)
and the New Medicare Quality Payment Program
Date: Thursday, October 27th, 2016, Time: 01:00 PM EDT | 10:00 AM PDT
Duration: 60 Minutes
Speaker: Joseph Wolfe
The passage by Congress of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of
2015 ("MACRA") caused the repeal of the Medicare sustainable growth rate ("SGR")
methodology and signaled a sea change in the way Medicare rewards clinicians for
providing quality care.
On April 27, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a
much anticipated 962 page proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) that outlines specific details
on how CMS intends to implement MACRA value-based payment reform under a new
framework called the Quality Payment Program.
Why should you attend?
Attendees should register because they need to be paying close attention to the structure
and program specific details on CMS's Quality Payment Program, MACRA, MIPS and
APM incentive implementation.
Health care leaders need to begin preparing now because the first performance year for
these programs begins on January 1, 2017 and payment adjustments will follow in 2019
(i.e., the 2019 bonus/penalty adjustments will be based on the 2017 performance
metrics).
Areas covered in the webinar
The Proposed Rule includes program-specific details on how CMS intends to establish
the Merit-based Incentive Payment System ("MIPS"), a new program that consolidates
components of three existing programs, the Physician Quality Reporting System
("PQRS"), the Physician Value- based Payment Modifier, and the Medicare EHR
Incentive Program. The proposed rule also would establish incentives for clinician
participation in certain alternative payment models ("APMs").
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2. Learning objective
 Provide a general overview of MACRA and the CMS Quality Payment Program
 Discuss the consolidation of PQRS, the Physician Value- based Payment Modifier,
and the Medicare EHR Incentive Program into MIPS
 Describe incentives for participation in certain alternative payment models (APMs)
 Discuss CMS's Quality Measure Development Plan for the Quality Payment
Program transition
Who will benefit
 In-House Counsel
 Health Care Executives
 Health Care Human Resources
 Health Care CFOs
Speaker profile
Joseph Wolfe is an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C., the largest
health care focused law firm in the country. Mr. Wolfe provides advice and counsel to
some of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a variety of
health care issues.
He regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician
compensation and alignment strategies. He is a frequent speaker on issues related to the
physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), hospital-physician transactions, physician
compensation governance and health care valuation issues.
Before attending law school at the University of Wisconsin, he served as a combat
engineer in the United States Army.
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