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For the first Part B News issue of the year, several experts shared their 2017 health care predictions. Here are more prognostications from Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of the Baltimore health IT company b.well.

You'll find an array of fearless predictions in the forthcoming pages of Part B News (next issue date: Jan. 2), as our editors and experts alike assay the winds of the medical practice industry to guess what's on tap once the calendar flips to 2017. But, as one might expect, a single issue can't hold all of the guesswork.
CMS created a slow lane for the quality payment program next year to allow providers more time to get used to the new model. With minimal effort in 2017, providers can avoid a 4% pay cut. However, they'll still be graded, and Medicare will post their scores online, which could impact practice revenue.

Multiple sources report that CMS’ Medicare Part B Drug Payment Model is dead.

Earlier this week, we noticed that the measures specification file on the CMS Quality Payment Program website was missing some specifications for claims-based measures -- for example, measure 1 (Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control [>9%]). We

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