The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday released its finalized Quality Measure Development Plan to support the recently-released Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Advanced Alternative Payment Models.
Proposed regulations released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are raising concerns that the playing field is uneven, with 87 percent of solo practitioners getting penalized and 81 percent of clinicians in large groups earning bonuses, according to some estimates.
The business of medicine has drastically changed over the past 20 years.Electronic health records, quality metrics, telemedicine, population health and the Affordable Care Act are only a few examples of the changes physicians have had to tackle in the last decade alone.
Putting one foot in front of the other can seem like a pretty simple task. But there is actually a lot that goes into this, as the foot is one of the most complex structures of the human body.
The causes of physician burnout are legion — technology, regulation, reimbursement — but the solution may be as simple as completing certain EHR optimization activities.
