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Code of Federal Regulations Title 42. Public Health § 42.414.1200 Basis and scope

Current as of January 02, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Basis. This subpart implements section 1848(p) of the Act by establishing a payment modifier that provides for differential payment starting in 2015 to a group of physicians and starting in 2017 to a group and a solo practitioner under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule based on the quality of care furnished compared to cost during a performance period.

(b) Scope. This subpart sets forth the following:

(1) The application of the value-based payment modifier.

(2) Performance and payment adjustment periods.

(3) Reporting mechanisms for the value-based payment modifier.

(4) Alignment of PQRS quality of care measures with the quality measures for the value-based payment modifier.

(5) Additional measures for groups and solo practitioners.

(6) Cost measures.

(7) Attribution for quality of care and cost measures.

(8) Scoring methods for the value-based payment modifier.

(9) Benchmarks for quality of care measures.

(10) Benchmarks for cost measures.

(11) Composite scores.

(12) Reliability of measures.

(13) Payment adjustments.

(14) Value-based payment modifier quality-tiering scoring methodology.

(15) Limitation of review.

(16) Inquiry process.

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