CMS offers insights on MIPS, APMs in MACRA's payment reform

ORLANDO -- A large crowd filled a ballroom at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Monday to hear from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on how to handle payment reform under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act and the law's mandate to rid Medicare cards of Social Security numbers.

CMS has received feedback from thousands of clinicians and others who are about to implement the quality payment mandates of MACRA, according to Pierre Yong, director, Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group, Centers for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for CMS...