Tag: Healthcare Act

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Exploring the 2022 Updates to the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program

  Coding professionals should familiarize themselves with three new measures in particular. In 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a quality data reporting program for hospital outpatient services. The Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program (Hospital OQR) is a pay-for-quality data reporting program mandated by the Tax Relief and Health Care Act […]
Providers Support Value in Health Care Act that Amends MACRA Payment Model

Providers Support Value in Health Care Act that Amends MACRA Payment Model

Among other provisions, the bill extends the 5% advanced APM bonus for an additional six years and modifies thresholds to achieve the bonus. Thirteen national provider groups support the newly-introduced House bill, the Value in Health Care Act of 2020, a bipartisan effort that proposes to make changes to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) […]