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March 25, 2016

GI News Round Up – 03/19/16 to 03/25/16

GI News

A New Agenda for the FDA
By Steve Sternberg
U.S. News and World Report

ACP makes Medicaid expansion waiver recommendations to ‘best suit patients’
Healio

GI Group Outlines Stark Overhaul
Q&A with Dr. Scott Ketover
Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News

5 most read GI/endoscopy stories: Week of March 14-18
By Anuja Vaidya
Becker’s ASC Review


Colonoscopy

Time for Congress to save lives during National Colorectal Cancer Month
By John Morrison
Helena Independent Record


Medicare Reimbursement

Considering alternative payment models in GI: 6 takeaways
By Anuja Vaidya
Becker’s GI and Endoscopy

CMS Ahead of Schedule in Push for Medicare Alternative Payment Models
By Debra A. McCurdy
Lexology

CMS tests waters for enhanced Medicare Advantage audits
By Bob Herman
Modern Healthcare

Medicare Advantage Plans Help Keep Patients out of Hospital
By Marcia Frellick
Medscape


MACRA

‘Fee for service is going away’: What it really means
By Alan L. Kaplan, MD
Urology Times

Here’s your MACRA primer (and don’t worry, it doesn’t ‘kill’ Meaningful Use)
By Betsy Weaver
MedCity News

Making the Grade as an Alternative Payment Model
By Mindy Yochelson
Bloomberg BNA

Physicians Stymied by MACRA’s Unknowns
By Debra Beaulieu
HealthLeaders Media

Top Ten Tech Trends: The MIPS Waiting Game
By Rajiv Leventhal
Healthcare Informatics

Uncertainty ahead for meaningful use and physicians
By Mary K. Pratt
Medical Economics

Washington Debrief: Quality Measurement, Meaningful Use Changes were Popular Subjects during House Hearing Last Week
By Leslise Kriegstein
Healthcare Informatics

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