Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Attention Small Urgent Care Operators: CMS May Lower Threshold for MACRA Exemptions

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has broadened the definition of “small providers” as it applies to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, to the extent that physician practices with less than $90,000 in Medicare revenue or fewer than 200 unique Medicare patients per year would be exempt from having to comply with MACRA. Between this new standard and the one proposed for next year, the move will exclude roughly 834,000 more …

Medicare ID Changes Are Looming, with or without Clear Guidance from CMS

Here’s what we know: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is going to stop including Social Security numbers on Medicare ID cards. Here’s what we don’t know: How this is going to work, and how it’s going to affects healthcare providers. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act requires CMS to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards due to increasing risk for identity theft and fraud. The year-long process of issuing new …