Quality Payment Program Design Examples for CY 2019; Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Understanding 3 Key Topics Listening Session – August 22; New AMA Accredited Web-Based Trainings Now Available

• Quality Payment Program Design Examples for CY 2019
• Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Understanding 3 Key Topics Listening Session – August 22
• New AMA Accredited Web-Based Trainings Now Available

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Quality Payment Program Design Examples for CY 2019

For CY 2019, the Quality Payment Program has created a set of design examples that illustrate key concepts in the CY 2019 proposed rule. Listed here are wireframe drawings of key concepts in the CY 2019 proposed rule. To comment on any of these examples, go to the proposed rule at the Federal Register and leave your comments there.

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Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Understanding 3 Key Topics Listening Session – August 22

Wednesday, August 22 from 1:30 to 3 pm

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Proposed changes to the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule would increase the amount of time doctors and other clinicians spend with their patients by reducing the burden of Medicare paperwork.  During this listening session, CMS experts will briefly cover three provisions from the proposed rule and address your clarifying questions to help you formulate your written comments for formal submission:

• Streamlining Evaluation and Management (E/M) payment and reducing clinician burden
• Advancing virtual care
• Continuing to improve the Quality Payment Program to reduce clinician burden, focus on outcomes, and promote interoperability

We encourage you to review the proposed rule prior to the call, as well as the following materials on the provisions to be covered:

• Quality Payment Program Year 3 (2019) Webinar Recording, Transcript, Presentation, and Comparison Fact Sheet
• Slide presentation on E/M and Advancing Virtual Care
• E/M Coding Reform videos:  Introduction, Office Visits and Panel Discussion

Note: Feedback received during this listening session will not be considered formal comments on the rule. See the proposed rule for information on submitting these comments by September 10, 2018.

Target Audience: Medicare Part B fee-for-service clinicians; office managers and administrators; state and national associations that represent healthcare providers; and other stakeholders.

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New AMA Accredited Web-Based Trainings Now Available

Now available on the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Learning Management System (LMS) are three AMA accredited web-based training programs. All offer continuing education credit through the AMA. You’ll need to log in to the MLN LMS and then search by title to access these new trainings.

Quality Payment Program Year 2 (2018) Overview Web-Based Training Course

Learn about:

• Quality Payment Program (QPP) in Year 2 (2018)
• Origin and objectives of the Quality Payment Program
• Four performance categories within the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
• Three criteria to be considered an Advanced Alternative Payment Model (Advanced APM)
• Available resources

Quality Payment Program Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Year 2 (2018) Web-Based Training Course

Learn about:

Quality Payment Program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Promoting Interoperability Performance Category in Year 2 (2018)

• Base, performance, and bonus score reporting requirements
• Performance category measure sets available in Year 2
• Scoring and reweighting methodology for the performance category
• Available resources and where to get help

Quality Payment Program: Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Quality Performance Category Year 2 (2018) Web-Based Training Course

Learn about:

• Quality Payment Program’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Quality Performance Category in Year 2 (2018)
• Reporting requirements
• Data submission mechanisms
• Scoring and benchmark methodology
• Available resources