eHealth Initiative's (eHI) Policy Workgroup Webinar,

A brief overview of the advantages of the HITECH Act and HIT Interoperability.

A brief discussion on economic and clinical health factors in the HITECH Act.

CMS’ recently released regulation outlines fundamental changes and signals a major shift in the healthcare landscape.

This proposed regulations are entitled “Medicare Program; Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Criteria for Physician-Focused Payment Models.”

In this webinar, we will explore the ways that this new regulation could affect how you operate in the healthcare space. We will hear from the following stakeholders: 
•    Robert Anthony, Deputy Director, Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group, Center for Clinical Standards & Quality
•    Sam Ho, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, United Healthcare
•    Mark Segal, PhD, Representative of eHI’s Policy Steering Committee; Vice President of Government and Industry Affairs, GE Healthcare IT 
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CMS emphasizes that the proposed rule addresses: 
•    Establishing the MIPS, a new program for certain Medicare-enrolled practitioners;
•    Establishing incentives for participation in certain APMs; 
•    Proposed criteria for use by the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) in making comments and recommendations on physician-focused payment models.
Newly released resources are now available. 
•    Quality Payment Program training slide deck
•    MIPS training slide deck
•    Updated catalog of CMS delivery and Medicare payment reform resources at: http://go.cms.gov/1UzdUqt.  
•    A copy of the document can be found at: http://bit.ly/1VCRVQn

eHI Comment letter to CMS on MACRA

Big changes are ahead in how Medicare will pay physicians. The MACRA rule establishes a new Medicare physician payment program that starts January 1, 2017, yet few providers understand how this this important change will affect how they are paid.