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May 18, 2026

Reminder: Tell Congress to Stabilize Medicare Clinician Payments

This week, Congress will hold hearings on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. This is an ideal opportunity to urge them to support the bipartisan Provider Reimbursement Stability Act (H.R. 8163), introduced by Reps. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY). The bill would modernize Medicare clinician ...
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May 18, 2026

CY 2024 Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period Is Open

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the calendar year (CY) 2024 Doctors and Clinicians Preview Period. You can preview your CY 2024 Quality Payment Program (QPP) performance information before it appears in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC) and on clinician and group profile pages o...
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May 11, 2026

HHS Moves to Reduce Psychiatric Overprescribing

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new action plan focused on psychiatric prescribing practices. As part of the initiative, HHS agencies will review prescribing trends for psychiatric drugs, examining both their effectiveness and possible risks. The department also emphasized exp...
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May 11, 2026

Electronic Prior Authorization Improvements: Get Involved and Start Testing

The current prior authorization process can create unnecessary delays and burden for providers. This past summer, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Thomas Keane announced a health-care industry pledge with major health plans fr...
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May 11, 2026

Upcoming Medicare Model Application Deadlines

The deadlines for the LEAD (Long-Term Enhanced Design) Model, the ACCESS (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) Model, and the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) ELEVATE (Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence) Model are imminent.
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May 4, 2026

Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Reform MIPS Physician Payment

On April 30, 2026, Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, MD (R-IA) and Herb Conaway, MD (D-NJ) introduced the Medicare Physician Data-driven Performance Payment System Act of 2026 (H.R. 8622), a bipartisan bill that would replace the existing Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) with a new framework calle...