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March 22, 2024
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March 22, 2024
CMS Announces Reopening of 2023 MIPS EUC Application in Response to Change Healthcare Cyberattack
In response to the Change Healthcare cyberattack in late February, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the data submission deadline and is now reopening the 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception Application to p...
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September 13, 2024
Review Your 2023 MIPS Final Scores
In case you missed the announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), please be aware that CMS released the Final 2023 MIPS Scores/2025 MIPS Payment Adjustments in mid-August. If you believe there is an error , please request a targeted review up until October 11, 2024, at 8:00 P...
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August 29, 2025
2024 MIPS Final Scores and Targeted Review Available Mid-September
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) previously announced that there was a delay with receiving some of the final Medicare claims data needed to calculate cost measures, which is delaying the release of Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final scores for the 2024 performance yea...
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November 4, 2024
2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Released
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the final rule for the Medicare Physician Payment Schedule for Calendar Year (CY) 2025. The staff at the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association will review the more than 3,000-page rule and prepare a summary.
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February 3, 2025
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Preserve Patient Access to Accountable Care
Darin LaHood Neal Dunn Suzan DelBene Kim Schrier, MD Preserving Patient Access to Accountable Care Act advanced alternative payment models APMs
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October 27, 2023
Reminder: Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind clinicians of the following upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines.
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September 1, 2023
CMS Issues Proposed Minimum Staffing Standards for LTC Rule
On September 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting proposed rule, which seeks to establish comprehensive nurse staffing requirements.
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April 28, 2023
Skilled Nursing Facility Three-Day Waiver-Analysis of Use in ACOs 2014 to 2019
In traditional Medicare, beneficiaries must have a medically necessary inpatient hospital stay of at least three consecutive days for the program to pay for skilled nursing facility (SNF) services.
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November 9, 2023
Reminder: CMS Accepting 2023 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception and MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception Applications
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception and MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception applications are available for the 2023 performance year. Applications can be submitted until 8:00 PM ET on January 2, 2024. ...
