The answer is none.
The question (for $1,000, Alex) is how many of the dozens of proposals to create physician-focused alternative payment models (APMs) have been approved under the new federal Quality Payment Program?
However, ACEP’s submission, entitled the Acute Unscheduled Care Model (AUCM): Enhancing Appropriate Admissions, seems to have gotten close to a nod when federal health care leaders showed up at a recent meeting on the model.
Reviewers from the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee “thought that we met all 10 criteria for models that the secretary put forth for evaluating physician-focused payment models,” Jeffrey Davis, ACEP director of regulatory affairs, said in an interview, adding that the attendance at the meeting of Alex Azar, secretary of Health & Human Serviecs, and Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, was a positive development.
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Key sessions at ACEP18 on QPP, MACRA, APMs, and MIPS include:
MO-058 Goodbye SGR! Hello MACRA and MIPS
Monday, Oct. 1 | 1:30 PM
TU-131 FAST FACTS: Reimbursement Topics for the Practicing Emergency Physician
Tuesday, Oct. 2 | 10:00 AM
TU-187 Alternative Payment Models: The New Reimbursement Frontier
Tuesday, Oct. 2 | 4:00 PM