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One sign that MIPS really is the future of provider payments: CMS plans to audit provider performance and that includes completion of clinical practice improvement activities.
Not all providers are on the hook to report the quality and health IT measures associated with the merit-based incentive payment (MIPS) system during 2017.
Practices that treat CIGNA patients: Check that pile of unopened mail. In the provider edition of CIGNA's Network News, April 2017, the payer notes that it mailed initial requests for medical records to collect data for the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) in Februrary.
Your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) will send your practice a letter before the end of May to let you know whether you have to participate in the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) to avoid a pay cut.
 
 

For the first Part B News issue of the year, several experts shared their 2017 health care predictions. Here are more prognostications from Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of the Baltimore health IT company b.well.

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