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The American Medical Association wants to widen the 60-day window within which physicians can be replaced by locum tenens equivalents. But a locum expert says CMS is unlikely to go for it.

Good news: A CMS source tells Part B News that the recent eClinicalWorks (ECW) settlement won't lead to blanket incentive payment takebacks or worse, as some providers had worried.

 
The path to successful quality-reporting in 2017 continues to get clearer. In a new release, you'll find dozens of qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs) that have obtained CMS' blessing to help you report your quality measures and other pieces of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS).
According to CMS officials, what should a MIPS-eligible clinician do if she has not received a MIPS clinician participation letter?
Look to your diagnosis coding to understand whether a patient fits the criteria for new cognitive-assessment code G0505 because the code does not confer blanket coverage for your elderly patients.

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