MACRA rule may help ophthalmologists avoid penalties

CHICAGO — The recently finalized MACRA rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services may help ophthalmologists avoid penalties by shifting physician payments from a volume based payment program to a value based payment program, according to speakers here.“MACRA has established, really, an entirely new payment policy for physicians. They’re calling it a quality payment program. In a nutshell, they’re paying for value rather than volume...The final rule has been pretty encouraging in terms of what we believe is the ability for most of our members to avoid the (Read more...)

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