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Six years ago today, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law here's what Part B News wrote on March 23, 2010.
Get ready to refocus your quality reporting. The merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS), a new, combined reporting program from CMS, will launch in calendar year 2017, confirmed CMS acting administrator Andy Slavitt during a March 7 webinar convened by the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Quality reporting in 2014 will really pay off for 128 groups this year. The baseline upward adjustment is 15.92% and that amount doubled for groups that treated high risk patients.
I feel you, CMS Acting Adminsitrator Andy Slavitt basically told providers who struggle with CMS' meaningful use requirements on March 2. But his sympathetic comments at the annual HIMSS meeting did not come with details as to how he would make things easier or more effective.

On Feb. 26, CMS announed it was extending the deadline to apply for a hardship exception for its Medicare EHR Incentive Program from March 15 to July 1.

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