CMS Expected To Announce Plans To Speed Performance-Based Pay

By John Wilkerson / January 22, 2015 at 12:23 PM
CMS officials are expected to announce Monday (Jan. 26) that they are moving a certain percentage of Medicare provider contracts to performance-based pay in the near future, provider lobbyists say. The expected announcement coincides with work Congress is doing to reform the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, which calls for moving physicians to alternative pay models that are based on performance. Lobbyists haven't been able to discern the details of the initiative, such as the timeline and the percentage of...


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