The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) has been repealed! However, (and there is always a however) it has been replaced with a potentially much more caustic new scheme. The Feds are going to force providers into the quality reporting, clinical practice improvement and EHR MU world. They call it MIPS. Not participating will cost you up to a 9% reduction in Medicare reimbursement by 2022. It’s time to get serious about measuring and improving quality, etc. If you are not on a MU EMR, it’s time! Doing so will potentially get you an additional 9% by 2022.nnStay tuned for more Todd’s Tips!nn
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About R. Todd Welter • MS, CPCnFounder and President of Welter Healthcare Partners
nMr. Welter has over 25 years of healthcare industry experience assisting physicians and other providers, hospitals and other facilities with the business side of medicine. Through strategic planning and analysis, Mr. Welter’s main focus is to strategically increase revenues and profitability in this radically changing health care environment. Mr. Welter has a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership from Regis University in Denver where he has had an appointment as affiliate faculty in the School for Professional Studies for over ten years. In addition, Mr. Welter holds a faculty appointment at the University of Denver’s University College. In the Health Care Leadership program he teaches Macro Economics in Health Care and Innovative Strategies and Change in Health Care to graduate students.