Physicians planning to avoid participating in MIPS and ignore MACRA may find that the effort required to avoid the penalty is small compared with the energy needed to make up the lost income.
MACRA has three goals for our healthcare system: better care, smarter spending and healthier people. MIPS measures these goals and links fee-for-service payments to quality and value. Direct primary care is quite similar.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Despite the proposed delay in implementation, by law, the date of payment adjustment remains Jan 1, 2019, which may sound far away now, but will be here before you know it.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently held its annual meeting and issued new guidelines for interoperability among electronic health record (EHR) systems.