Neurosurgery Submits Comments on Medicare’s Quality Payment Programs

On Sept. 29, the AANS and the CNS submitted comments related to Medicare’s quality payment programs. The letter addressed the following topics:

• MIPS Value Pathways;
• MIPS performance categories;
• APM Performance Pathway;
• Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs); and
• Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) Technology.

The neurosurgical groups also joined the Alliance in commenting on these same topics. Finally, the AANS and CNS also joined the Physician Clinical Registry Coalition (PCRC) in commenting on issues related to data validation and QCDR measure testing.

Click here for neurosurgery’s letter, here for the Alliance letter and here for the PCRC letter.