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AAPC’s Local Chapter Team and the Chapter Association Board of Directors, sincerely thank you, our chapter officers, as you support our fellow AAPC members by changing in-person meetings to virtual events, and by canceling exams and rescheduling them for later in the year, during this season of the COID-19 pandemic. We offer the following as […]
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Believe it or not, elections are right around the corner. You may be wondering how that can be. Well, keep in mind that in planning for elections there are events that must happen before the elections ever take place, and that’s the nominations. Here’s how that works. Officers must allow for nominations to be made […]
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The Quality Payment Program is well into its second performance year. Are your clinicians ready? Clinicians eligible to participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) are already behind schedule if they haven’t selected measures on which to submit data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS has been busy posting on […]
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This is the third in our series of articles designed to help radiology practices prepare for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Previous articles covered the Quality Performance Category, which is the largest portion of the MIPS score, and the Advancing Care Information (ACI) Category. Quality will initially account for at least 60% of the total MIPS score and ACI will account for up to 25% of the total score. The Improvement Activities (IA) Category, originally called the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities in proposed regulations, represents 15% of the total score for 2017, the first year of MIPS participation. The fourth element of MIPS, the Cost Category, has been reweighted to zero for 2017.
A webinar presented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Dec. 13, 2016, briefly discussed two of the four Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) categories: Advancing Care Information (ACI) and Improvement Activities. Most of the 90-minute session was reserved for questions and answers. Here are some of the questions your colleagues asked, with answers from CMS. Q: How […]
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