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Flush the old alphabet soup down the drain. MIPS is here and with it comes a new language aligned with the updated quality-reporting programs.
Solo providers and small practices, take note. Under the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) that starts in 2017, you will get docked more than half a billion dollars in Medicare payments.

Along with its newsworthy LGQBT requirements, the Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities final rule issued today by HHS' Office for Civil Rights (OCR)  also addresses federal health care providers’ responsibilities to patients with limited English language proficiency (LEP). 

Among the (few) substantial changes: you have to be ready to serve such patients whether they’ve ever come to your practice before or not.

Discrimination against patients based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or whether they conform to "sex stereotypes" are all banned under the final rule HHS released earlier today.
You know by now that some NPPs will have to take part in the new quality payment program next year to avoid the 4% pay cut. But in 2017 they will not be graded on one of the four sections of the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System, and you can probably guess which one.

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