In this session, Mr. Wolfe will give an outline of the Quality Payment Program, with its MIPS and Advanced APM pathways. Mr. Wolfe will give an easy, useful clarification of key arrangements and alternatives for clinicians and health care heads as they explore the 2017 transition year and past.
Starting on January 1st 2017, CMS began compensating clinicians for providing a top notch patient care via one of two pathways: (1) payment of incentives for support in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs); or (2) utilization of a positive or negative modification as per the clinician's act under the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Joseph Wolfe is a partner with Hall Render, the largest health care focused law firm in the country, now with offices nationwide. Hall Render attorneys provide advice and counsel to many of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a broad range of regulatory, operational and strategic matters. Mr. Wolfe regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician governance, alignment and compensation strategies.He is a frequent speaker and author on issues related to the physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), hospital-physician transactions, medical group structures, value-based payment strategies (MACRA, MIPS, APM, bundled payments, etc.), physician compensation and health care valuation issues. Before attending law school at the University of Wisconsin, he served as a combat engineer in the United States Army.
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