BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 1

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."There is so much to unpack between the PFS and QPP; therefore, we will need to take it in digestible chunks. We will start in this article with a high-level overview of the QPP final rule.Overall 2019...

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