Company offers to help clients avoid negative adjustments under MIPS, highlights proven performance of Meaningful Use and Physician Quality Reporting System track records

 
Specialty-specific health information technology company Modernizing Medicine, Inc. (based in Boca Raton) recently announced the modmed Pledge to support its clients with the upcoming transition to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and value-based healthcare. Modernizing Medicine's confidence is due to the company's successful track record for Meaningful Use (MU) attestation and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) - measures that collectively make up 85% of the 2017 MIPS composite score as defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Beginning in January of 2017, physicians' performance will be measured and compared against their peers across a number of different criteria. Providers that exceed the minimum threshold in 2017 can be paid more money versus those that don't. Providers that do not meet the minimum threshold can receive a substantial reduction in Medicare payments.

Modernizing Medicine provides numerous advantages to address MIPS, including...

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Source: Becker's ASC

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