CMS has posted the Cost Measure Field Test reports on the QPP website! It’s time for you to download yours!

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Field Test Reports for eligible clinicians and clinician groups will be available on the Quality Payment Program Portal beginning January 29.

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CMS is holding office hours with specialty societies and organizations to provide information about the upcoming field testing period.

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I will be posting a series of blogs explaining this in more painful detail, including a step by step guide to download your Field Test report.

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As the song says, “I am no longer sure of what I absolutely know.”

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I hung up thinking, “What just happened? When did pharmacists start practicing medicine?” It turns out my experience was not unique.

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I attended the Noridian informational call on the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model.

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Either new packaging will have to be developed, or manufacturers will have to “bake” wastage into the product price.

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Medicare fee for service (FFS) does not pay for discarded amounts of “incident to supplies” (which is how all non-BLA CTPs/skin subs are now classified) and will only pay for the amount of product furnished.

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This New Year’s Eve, I am going to drink a toast to a new era in the use of CTPs, based on data around real-world clinical effectiveness.

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