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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday released a final rule on the Quality Payment Program that the agency said is meant to ease burdensome regulations. The 1,658-page final rule ...

A new report by HHS’ Office of Inspector General gives CMS points for making significant efforts to implement the Quality Payment Program (QPP) but says challenges remain that could undermine the ...

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for medical groups and health systems nationwide, today announced that clinicians ...

Federal value-based payment programs require primary care practices to conduct quality improvement activities, informed by the electronic reports on clinical quality measures that their electronic ...

CMS launched an Application Program Interface that makes it easier to share electronic data for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program. In October, CMS revealed the program’s website. The new API, called the ...

It’s midway through the year and practices most likely have selected their quality measures and are collecting data to meet the reporting requirements under CMS’ Quality Payment Program under the 2018 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patient mortality correlated with end-stage kidney disease quality incentive program facility payment reductions ...

A $12 billion budget deficit is forcing California to end its nascent Skilled Nursing Facility Workforce and Quality Incentive Program after just two years — a fate similar programs in other states ...

CMS Administator Seema Verma said the changes are designed to reduce administrative burdens for physicians so they can spend more time with patients. A group representing community oncologists said a ...