MIPS CY 2019 Proposal
Last month CMS shared their Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, and they included their MIPS CY 2019 proposals. Here is a summary of the proposals for the MIPS CY 2019 program, specifically focused on areas of interest to health IT developers. The final rule will be likely be released around the October timeframe. While everything is technically in proposal stage, I expect everything listed below to ultimately be finalized in the final rule. Expanded definition of Eligible
IPPS Final Rule - Inpatient Medicare Promoting Interoperability Overview
Yesterday, CMS dropped their final rule on the Inpatient Payment System (IPPS). Looking at the aspects dealing with the Promoting Interoperability program, everything is mostly finalized as projected from its NPRM, but I will summarize it here. It should be noted that this rule focused on the inpatient side of the Promoting Interoperability program for eligible hospitals (EHs) and critical access hospitals (CAHs) and not for eligible providers (EPs). This gets confusing given
