Two recent developments signify a growing emphasis on value-based care in the U.S. health care system:  establishment of a new flexibility within the Quality Payment Program (QPP) and creation of the Health Care Innovation Caucus. Beginning in performance year 2019, the “All-Payer Combination Option” [...]

As part of its Working Hours, Sleep, and Fatigue series, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is hosting the webinar, “Managing fatigue in safety-critical workforces: Primary risk factors and practical approaches,” on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 from 2 p.m. 3:30 p.m. [...]

On Mar. 15 the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent congressional agency charged with advising Congress on issues affecting Medicare, released to Congress its Medicare Payment Policy report, which calls for the replacement of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) with a new [...]

The deadline to submit data for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) via MIPSwizard is March 26, 2018. MIPSwizard helps guide clinicians through a few easy steps to rapidly collect, validate and submit performance results to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). [...]

Private insurance claims with a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea grew 850 percent in the U.S. from 2014 to 2017, according to a press release from FAIR Health, a national, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing transparency to health care costs and health insurance [...]

To help providers of positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy avoid improper payments and denials due to insufficient documentation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Learning Network (MLN) recently posted a fact sheet, "Provider compliance tips for PAP devices and accessories including [...]

MIPS-eligible clinicians participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) as an individual or as part of a group can apply to participate in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) study to evaluate the burdens associated with reporting quality measures. The purpose [...]

The AASM has posted scorecards for the diagnostic sleep apnea testing policies of AIM Specialty Health, UnitedHealthcare and eviCore. The scorecards are the first to be developed by the AASM Payer Policy Review Committee, which is responsible for encouraging correct adoption of AASM guidelines [...]