tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 5

MACRA: Focus Quality Reporting for Your Surgeons With These FAQ's

Embrace MIPS as PQRS wanes. If you think that the expiring Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) means your general surgery practice can forget about “quality reporting,” think again. In fact, quality reporting moves forward in an even bigger way under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), which “represents the most significant change to Medicare’s physician payment system in a generation …” according to Andrew Gurman, MD, AMA president, in a press release responding to the final rule. Bottom line: You can’t afford to ignore what MACRA means for your...

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