In setting the final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a determined effort to simplify requirements that will revamp physician reimbursement to reflect quality and efficiency of care.
For instance, physicians not ready in 2017 to report on quality measures for a full year need only to report at least one quality measure to avoid a payment penalty, which was one example of cutting out unnecessary bureaucratic hoops.
