AUGS Input to House Lawmarkers on How to Stabilize Medicare Payments

We are seeking AUGS members who are interested in participating in this effort by providing input and helping to develop the AUGS response to the congressional RFI. We are looking for volunteers to provide their perspective on specific details of the MIPS and the program for Advanced APMs in addition to cross-cutting themes relevant to ensuring the predictability and sustainability of Medicare physician payment and promoting high quality care.

Please submit your answers to one or all of the following questions. Additionally, we are seeking volunteers to join the AUGS Coding & Reimbursement Committee call on October 10th at 8:30 pm ET to engage in further discussion.

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1. Which MIPS performance categories, i.e., Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities, are improving the quality of care you are providing?

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2. Which MIPS performance categories are simply adding an extra administrative and financial burden and why?

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3. Please share opportunities or ways in which to restructure the MIPS performance categories to make them more meaningful and less burdensome:

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4. Are the current requirements for participating in an Advanced APM a deterrent to your participation and, if so, why?

Yes

Please explain:

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5. If you are participating in an Advanced APM, do you believe the program is facilitating care improvement and/or cost savings?

Yes

N/A - Not participating in an Advanced APM

Please explain:

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6. What would you change or maintain about the program as currently structured?

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7. What ideas do you have about how to balance the need for physicians to receive annual payment updates to account for increases in practice costs and maintaining the viability of physician practices with the need to control Medicare program costs?

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8. Are you interested in providing comments and/or joining the discussion during the AUGS Coding & Reimbursement Committee call scheduled for October 10th at 8:30 pm ET?

Yes

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9. Please include your email:

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10. Contact Information (for AUGS use only; email will not be shared)

Name

Email Address

AUGS Input to House Lawmarkers on How to Stabilize Medicare Payments

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* 1. Which MIPS performance categories, i.e., Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities, are improving the quality of care you are providing?

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* 2. Which MIPS performance categories are simply adding an extra administrative and financial burden and why?

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* 3. Please share opportunities or ways in which to restructure the MIPS performance categories to make them more meaningful and less burdensome:

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* 4. Are the current requirements for participating in an Advanced APM a deterrent to your participation and, if so, why?

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* 5. If you are participating in an Advanced APM, do you believe the program is facilitating care improvement and/or cost savings?

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* 6. What would you change or maintain about the program as currently structured?

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* 7. What ideas do you have about how to balance the need for physicians to receive annual payment updates to account for increases in practice costs and maintaining the viability of physician practices with the need to control Medicare program costs?

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* 8. Are you interested in providing comments and/or joining the discussion during the AUGS Coding & Reimbursement Committee call scheduled for October 10th at 8:30 pm ET?

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* 9. Please include your email:

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* 10. Contact Information (for AUGS use only; email will not be shared)

1. Which MIPS performance categories, i.e., Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities, are improving the quality of care you are providing?

2. Which MIPS performance categories are simply adding an extra administrative and financial burden and why?

3. Please share opportunities or ways in which to restructure the MIPS performance categories to make them more meaningful and less burdensome:

4. Are the current requirements for participating in an Advanced APM a deterrent to your participation and, if so, why?

5. If you are participating in an Advanced APM, do you believe the program is facilitating care improvement and/or cost savings?

6. What would you change or maintain about the program as currently structured?

7. What ideas do you have about how to balance the need for physicians to receive annual payment updates to account for increases in practice costs and maintaining the viability of physician practices with the need to control Medicare program costs?

8. Are you interested in providing comments and/or joining the discussion during the AUGS Coding & Reimbursement Committee call scheduled for October 10th at 8:30 pm ET?

9. Please include your email:

10. Contact Information (for AUGS use only; email will not be shared)