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News and views on the regulatory, legislative and political issues impacting ophthalmology in Washington, D.C., and around the United States. Articles featured in the Academy's weekly Washington Report Express email newsletter.
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Academy, ASCRS Urge CMS Delay New MIPS Reporting Option

JAN 05, 2023 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

The Academy is concerned that a new reporting option for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System currently in development does not appropriately account for the diversity of ophthalmic practices.

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Congress Seeks Feedback on Stabilizing Medicare Physician Payment System

SEP 15, 2022 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MACRA, Medicare Payment Reform

Several of the Academy’s congressional champions and Visionary Award winners want you to tell them how Congress can protect physician payments.

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Academy Urges Congress, CMS to Collaborate to Reform Physician Payments

SEP 08, 2022 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, Congressional Advocacy, Medicare Fee Schedule, E/M Codes, Sequestration, Medicare Payment Reform

In a 50-plus-page letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, we urged the agency to engage with Congress to ensure appropriate physician reimbursement and reform of the Medicare payment system.

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Surgical Coalition Presses Congress to Avert 2023 Medicare Cuts

SEP 08, 2022 in Congressional Advocacy, Medicare Fee Schedule, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

To build support in Congress for stopping scheduled payment cuts, the Academy’s leaders will join the coalition for Leadership Day on Sept. 15 to meet with Congress members and their staff on Capitol Hill. You too can join the efforts by contacting your legislators.

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2023 Fee Schedule Analysis: Scope Threat; MIPS changes

JUL 28, 2022 in Medicare Fee Schedule, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

The Academy will raise scope concerns over CMS’ plan to create a combined new ophthalmology and optometry specialty set under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, a concept the agency unveiled in its 2023 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

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CMS: MIPS Cost Category Reweighted to 0% for 2021

APR 28, 2022 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, Coronavirus

The effects of COVID-19 on medical practices have prompted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reweight the cost performance category from 20% to 0% for all MIPS participants for the 2021 performance period, the agency announced this week.

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CMS Announces 69% Getting MIPS Bonus in 2022; Compares to IRIS Registry’s 83%

JAN 27, 2022 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

IRIS Registry gave ophthalmologists a significant advantage in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

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Automatic 2021 MIPS Hardship Exception Applies to Individual Eligible Physicians

NOV 14, 2021 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

In a continued effort to offer practices relief from the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced it will automatically apply the extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policy to all individual eligible clin…

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Nov. 29 Deadline for Ophthalmologists to Request 2020 MIPS Review

OCT 20, 2021 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

CMS is allowing clinicians, groups and Alternative Payment Model practices to request a review of their 2020 MIPS scores because of extreme and uncontrollable circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CMS Corrects MIPS Issues Resulting in Payment, Performance Adjustments

SEP 30, 2021 in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

Ophthalmologists may see some changes to their 2022 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System payment and performance adjustments due to corrections to the MIPS 2020 scoring logic, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made this week.

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