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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) kicked off its 2020-2021 flu season campaign with new resources to encourage people with Medicare or other CMS health care programs to get their flu shot. CMS is taking additional actions to protect the health of the nation’s seniors from the flu and its associated health complications. This is through a robust campaign aimed at people with Medicare, with a special focus on beneficiaries who experience health disparities.
If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2019, your performance feedback, including your MIPS final score and payment adjustment factor(s), is now available for review on the Quality Payment Program website.
This final score determines the payment adjustment you will receive in 2021, with a positive, negative, or neutral payment adjustment being applied to the Medicare paid amount for covered professional services furnished by a MIPS eligible clinician in 2021.
Following the lead of President Trump’s emergency declarations for Louisiana and Texas, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar declared public health emergencies in the two states as Hurricane Laura continues its track in the Gulf of Mexico.
ASCO recently submitted comments to CMS on the Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2021 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update; Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements; and Home Infusion Therapy Services Requirements (CMS-1730-P) proposed rule.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will be hosting a webinar on “Understanding Clinical Quality Measures: How CMS is Modernizing its Approach to Digital Measurement”. The webinar will provide an overview of quality measurement, unique features of electronic clinical quality measures and future plans for digitization. The webinar will also address burden reduction, measure reporting considerations and provide information about key resources. The webinar will be offered twice and registration links are provided below:
On August 20, 2020, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (the Society), and its affiliate organization the Association for Clinical Oncology (the Association), will host
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) has released 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance feedback and final scores. If you submitted data for the 2019 performance period, you can view your MIPS performance feedback and final score on the Quality Payment Program website.