Stakeholders in the Medicare value-based care world have without a doubt heard of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and alternative payment models (APMs). While all these initiatives...more
On July 10, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule to establish the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM)—a mandatory value-based payment model for specialists who treat patients with...more
On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Medicare Part B Proposed Rule, which was published...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 12, 2018, published the CY 2019 Proposed Rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). While in previous years regulations for the Quality Payment Program (QPP)...more
On September 8, 2016, CMS announced in a blogpost that new physician payment model reforms, established in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), will begin implementation on January 1, 2017, as...more