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Set up the wrong employment relationship with your nonphysician practitioners (NPPs), and you'll forfeit the ability to bill their services incident-to your physicians and miss out on an additional 15% of their reimbursement.

How long you keep your medical records depends on where your practice is located, what programs your patients take part in, and what agency you must comply with.

Available now expert report, Incident-to Coding Strategies.  In the past year, CMS has targeted practices filing non-physician practitioner (NPP) incident-to claims for audits more aggressively than ever before.

MACRA is not going anywhere. So whether you like it or not, you have an important decision to make. For the first year, you have to weigh your compliance options and pick the right one for your practice.

Although Medicare began paying for chronic care management (CCM) services in 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that many practices are not taking advantage of the new coverage, even after more than a year.

You should learn soon whether you meet the 2017 MIPS participation threshold, CMS announced in an April 25 press release. This means you may know sooner — rather than later — if you have to comply with MACRA for the 2017 reporting period.

The recently released free tool, MIPS vs. APM Decision Tree 2017, helps providers select the correct MACRA compliance option for their individual situation.