Understanding the complexity of financial risk involved with value-based reimbursement programs is a challenge. As value-based care reimbursement models have evolved, so too has the financial risk. Performance thresholds are moving higher and the sheer number of elements involved make it challenging to manage what’s needed to perform effectively under these contracts. An important resource...Read More

CMS wants to make quality scores easily accessible and readily available for the public. Did your “avoid-the-MIPS-penalty” strategy just backfire? There is much discussion about whether adhering to CMS Clinical Quality Measures has any direct impact on positive patient outcomes. Without a clear answer, a pragmatic approach to fulfilling the administrative requirement and simply avoiding...Read More

Reducing the Administrative Burden on ACOs Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) will have new reporting requirements beginning in 2021. The new rule changes are designed to help reduce reporting burdens and improve patient outcomes. In fact, these changes impact both the kind of data reported to CMS, and the...Read More

Explore How Top-Performers Use Information to Actively Manage Commercial Value-Based Care Contracts Wouldn’t you like to get out ahead of your commercial value-based payment contracts and be more proactive? Providers find that value-based contracts are responsible for an increasing share of their revenue. As these programs mature and evolve, we believe payment amounts tied to...Read More

Before an organization implements a value-based contract, it must understand that it requires resources to support physicians and the financial objectives of the organization. Value-based care providers are eager to improve clinical outcomes, since these models tie reimbursement to clinical quality. However, the sheer volume of data involved makes it difficult to understand what’s needed...Read More

Navigating the complex framework of MIPS 2019 has everything to do with the ability to provide services that support practices with successful point optimization and very little to do with organizing data for submission. ReportingMD has solved the technological problems of reporting and perfected the enhancement of performance management to maximize profitability for our clients....Read More

The 2019 MIPS Reporting Year (aka “MIPS Program Year 3”) maintains many of the key features outlined within the first two program years with a few added features designed to streamline usage and encourage participation in the program. 2019 MIPS, runs from January 1st, 2019 through December 31st 2019 with a submission window of January...Read More

Providers around the nation consistently voice their opinion that the Merit-Based Incentive Payment system (MIPS) is an unnecessary administrative burden that negatively affects their desire to provide high-quality healthcare for their patients. Realistically, when approached correctly using a vendor like ReportingMD, the MIPS Program is a financial opportunity and not just a data problem to...Read More