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After years of payment cuts based on the controversial two-midnight rule, CMS is finally giving hospitals a break in its 2017 hopsital payments fonal rule.

Providers working in more than a dozen markets are now eligible to apply for an advanced primary care model that will dole out up to $100 per patient, per month in upfront payments.
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.
 
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.
You can expect an easier time getting paid for chronic care management (CCM) services in 2017, as CMS plans to clear reporting hurdles for what it calls an "underutilized" service, according to the 2017 Medicare proposed fee schedule. Yet the proposed rule shows that no small number of Medicare beneficiaries received CCM services in 2015 -- specifically, 275,000 beneficiaries.

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