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Providers will see a 3.4% pay increase when performing chronic care management (CCM) services next year, and they'll gain a reimbursement channel for "complex" CCM.
 

If your practice is in a mandatory bundled payment model, such as the Comprehensive Care of Joint Replacement (CJR), you may qualify to receive incentives as an advanced alternative payment model (APM).

It's not uncommon for medical publishers to try and muscle in on fads that seem to have nothing to do with anything, but Pokemon Go has inspired a ton of possibly specious health care tie-ins -- including one for ICD-10 codes.

A data mining final rule from CMS, issued on July 1, clears the way for qualified entities to create data analyses using Medicare and other claims data and sell them to providers – but you’ll have to be a  provider with big data needs to directly benefit from these products.
Don't stop your quality payment program preparations. Even though CMS is considering "multiple approaches" to how - and when - it will launch the program, practices shouldn’t assume the agency will put the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) on hold.

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