BC Advantage - 2018 Issue 11

2019 QPP Final Rule Overview

The first week of November was a busy one for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Not only did they release the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) but also the 2019 Quality Payment Program. According to CMS, the monumental changes made will address provider burnout by “shifting clinicians’ time from completing unnecessary paperwork to providing innovative, high-quality patient care.”Let me preface by saying that this is one of many blogs to come! There is so much to unpack between the PFS and QPP, therefore we will need to take it in digestible chunks. We...

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