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PCPs in only 4 states can join new CPC+ advanced APMs in 2018

by: Roy Edroso May 17, 2017

Providers in four states get an opportunity to join the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus program (CPC+) and become an advanced alternative payment model (APM).

Watch your mailbox for letter about whether you have to do MIPS

by: Karen Long Apr 25, 2017

Your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) will send your practice a letter before the end of May to let you know whether you have to participate in the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) to avoid a pay cut.

How one clinical network runs its physician incentive program

by: Roy Edroso Mar 30, 2017

To get a more in-depth idea about insurer-based physician incentive programs, we talked to a clinically integrated network executive about how it works.

EPM programs delayed from July to October by CMS

by: Roy Edroso Mar 21, 2017

The Trump administration has postponed the debut of four new payment models that appear to conflict with the health care philosophy of new HHS Secretary Tom Price.

A cancer specialty group CEO talks about the American Health Care Act

by: Roy Edroso Mar 13, 2017

In the regulatory update in our March 13 issue of Part B News, Ann Marie Edwards, CEO of Alliance Cancer Specialists PC in Philadelphia, talks about the hardship the Obamacare “grace period” puts on her practice and how she hopes the Republican repeal-and-replace bill, the American Health Care Act, will solve it. To follow are some of her further thoughts on that bill.

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