Washington Watch Weekly

Washington Watch Weekly--January 5, 2018

ASCRS Supports Extension of the MIPS Transition Period and Small Practice Accommodations But Opposes Increasing the Cost Category Weight to 10% in Comments on 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Year 2 Final Rule

Extended MIPS Transition Period

Congress Likely to Delay FY2018 Omnibus Spending Bill That Includes Medicare Extenders; ASCRS Continues to Fight Misvalued Codes Provision

Congressional leaders and senior White House staff met on Wednesday to discuss spending caps for an appropriations bill for the current fiscal year, which began October 1, but an agreement has not...

CMS Opens Quality Payment Program (QPP) Portal for 2017 MIPS Reporting; Releases 2018 Quality Measure Specifications and Benchmarks, Advancing Care Information Measure Specifications, and Improvement Activities

2017 Data Submission Site Now Open

Medical Community Advocacy Prompts Anthem to Reduce Payment Cuts for E&M Codes Billed with Modifier 25

Following reports that Anthem notified physicians in many states that they will begin reducing payments by 50% for evaluation and management (E&M) codes reported with a Current Procedural...

FDA Announces New Steps to Speed Up Generic Drug Approvals

This week, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, released a...

Register Now: Special Webinar for ASCRS and ASOA Members on How to Protect Your Practice from the Latest Cybersecurity Threats; Featuring IT Security Expert Charles Killmer, CISSP

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

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