Providers Turn Attention To Alternative Pay Models, Merit-Pay Measures

Now that the SGR formula has been repealed, providers are turning their attention to implementing the new pay system, and they're focusing on the merit-pay program and alternative pay models in which providers must participate to avoid an eventual pay freeze in fee-for-service Medicare. The goal of the new system is to pay physicians for the value of their services instead of rewarding them for volume. The law increases physician pay annually 0.5 percent, starting in June, through 2019. Pay...