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The final rule for year two of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) makes a few departures from the proposed rule -- the most surprising of which is the early return of the cost category for the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS).
You can buckle up and take part in a test run of the MIPS cost category to see how your practice performs on eight experimental measures.
Medical practices in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee will be saying goodbye to one Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) and welcoming a new one after the calendar flips to 2018.

MedPAC makes a bold recommendation for the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS): Get rid of it.

If lately you've been wondering what's been made of a proposed rule that was supposed to change Part B drug payments in the fall of 2016, don't fret about your cognitive state. You didn't suffer a bout of amnesia; the proposal died quietly at some point during the rule-making process and CMS officially cleared it from the books Oct. 3.

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