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Insurance mergers, shift to alternative payment models, Meaningful Use stage 2, preventing data breaches, pressure to consolidate – welcome to 2016.
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Alternative Payment Models (APMs)
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Extends the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for two more years
Requires Medicare to move away from SSN based Medicare ID numbers
Includes new funding for development and testing of performance measures
Enables new programs and requirements for data sharing
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MACRA is 2 years of work, signed into law in April 2015
Extends the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for two more years
Requires Medicare to move away from SSN based Medicare ID numbers
Includes new funding for development and testing of performance measures
Enables new programs and requirements for data sharing
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Improve health outcomes.
Spend wisely.
Minimize burden of participation.
Be fair and transparent.
The Quality Payment Program has 2 tracks: (1) The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and (2) Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs).
Because the Quality Payment Program brings significant changes to how clinicians are paid within Medicare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing to go slow and use stakeholder feedback to find ways to streamline and reduce clinician burden. CMS has engaged more than 100 stakeholder organizations and over 47,000 people since January 1, 2017 to raise awareness, solicit feedback, and help clinicians prepare to participate. Based on stakeholder feedback, CMS established transition year policies from the clinician perspective, such as:
Giving clinicians the option to choose how they’ll participate (also known as Pick Your Pace).
Having a low-volume threshold that exempts many clinicians with a low volume of Medicare
Part B payments or patients.
Allowing flexibilities for clinicians who are considered hospital-based or have limited face-to-
face encounters with patients (referred to as non-patient facing clinicians).
As the Quality Payment Program moves into the second year, CMS wants to ensure that there is meaningful measurement and the opportunity for improved patient outcomes while minimizing burden, improving coordination of care for patients, and supporting a pathway to participation in Advanced APMs.
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- Build and sustain the metrics to support a PSH
- Learn how to engage physician champions
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Dr. Schweitzer previously served as the Chief Medical Officer for Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, TX where he was involved in the CMS Pilot for Acute Care Episodes, ACO development, and co-management programs.
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Spend wisely.
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Be fair and transparent.
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Having a low-volume threshold that exempts many clinicians with a low volume of Medicare
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Allowing flexibilities for clinicians who are considered hospital-based or have limited face-to-
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- Learn how to engage physician champions
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are APMs that meet following criteria:
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• APM entities that participate in the APM under an agreement with CMS;
• APM bases payment incentives on performance (either at the APM entity or eligible clinician level), on
cost/utilization, and quality measures.
Advanced APMs
Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) are a track of the Quality Payment Program that offer a 5 percent
incentive payment for achieving threshold levels of payments or patients through Advanced APMs. If you achieve these
thresholds, you become a Qualifying APM Participant (QP) and you are excluded from the MIPS reporting requirements
and payment adjustment. Advanced APMs allow eligible clinicians to become a QP for an opportunity to receive a 5
percent APM incentive payment and to be excluded from MIPS. Advanced APMs are APMs that meet following 3
criteria:
• Requires participants to use certified EHR technology;
• Provides payment for covered professional services based on quality measures comparable to those used in the MIPS
quality performance category; and
• Either: (1) is a Medical Home Model expanded under CMS Innovation Center authority OR (2) requires participants to
bear a significant financial risk.
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Advanced & MIPS APMs
Most Advanced APMs are also MIPS APMs. MIPS Eligible clinicians participating in Advanced APMs are included in MIPS
if they do not meet the threshold for payments or patients sufficient to become a Qualifying APM Participant (QP). The
MIPS eligible clinician will be scored under MIPS according to the APM scoring standard.
All-Payer Advanced Alternative Payment Models
During the 2022 QP Performance Period, eligible clinicians will be able to become Qualifying Alternative Payment Model
Participant (QPs) through the All-Payer Combination Option. In order to do so, a clinician must be in a Medicare
Advanced APM. A clinician can also combine their participation with an Other-Payer Advanced APM. Eligible clinicians
who are determined to be QPs will receive a 5 percent APM incentive payment in the payment year and will not be
subject to the MIPS reporting requirements or payment adjustments.
Incentives for Medicaid clinicians who also treat Medicare patients
MACRA established the QPP, which offers financial incentives for Medicare Part B providers to participate in risk-bearing
APM arrangements. Under MACRA, qualifying APM participants (QPs) who earn a minimum percentage of their
payments through advanced alternative payment models or see a minimum percentage of patients through advanced
APMs are exempted from merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) reporting requirements and can earn a five
percent Medicare payment bonus from 2019-2024.
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Beginning in 2026, QPs will receive a higher annual Medicare fee schedule adjustment than non-QPs. In addition,
eligible clinicians who participate in certain APMs but don’t meet the QP requirements may still receive more favorable
scoring under MIPS.
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