Here’s what you need to know.
1. CMS is waiving the 2017 or 2018 PQRS payment adjustments to physicians that failed to “satisfactorily report for 2016 solely as a result of the impact of ICD-10 code updates on quality data reported for the fourth quarter of 2016.”
2. The ICD-10 updates are closely related to the quality reporting standards.
3. The waiver is only eligible for physicians who failed to meet reporting because of ICD-10 codes.
4. Sandy Pogones, a certified professional in healthcare quality and the AAFP’s senior strategist for healthcare quality, said family physicians were grateful for the waivers.
“There has been a lot of concern on the part of our members about how all of these changes in the implementation of ICD-10 would impact their quality reporting,” Ms. Pognoes said. “And now CMS is saying, ‘Don’t worry about it. If ICD-10 impacts your reporting, you will not be hit with a negative payment adjustment.'”
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