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The state of American health care is simply unsustainable and reform is desperately needed. Costs are rising faster in the United States than anywhere else, and Health care is now a shocking 18 percent of our national GDP. That figure is nearly double the global average and represents approx. $3.2 trillion dollars in health care spending. Unfortunately, that means medical costs for a family of four (assuming employer-provided PPO insurance) have increased nearly 180 percent since 2002. But household income has barely moved since then, which means American families are diverting more and more of their hard-earned dollars toward health care. BUT THERE IS A SOLUTION... Population Health Management (PHM) and Value-Based Care (VBC) WHAT IS POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT? It is collecting and analyzing patient data, aggregating it to segment the patient population and stratifying risk (into low risk, rising risk, and high risk), transforming that data into a single, actionable patient record, uncovering and filling gaps in care, aligning physicians, coordinating care, optimizing efficiency and reducing costs. PRIMARY BENEFITS: Improving clinical and financial outcomes, reducing the onset of disease, slowing disease progression, and helping patients live happier, healthier lives. WHAT IS VALUE BASED CARE? It is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid based on patient health outcomes rather than volume of services provided. Under value-based care agreements, providers are rewarded for helping patients improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease, and live healthier lives. Value-based care differs from a fee-for-service or capitated approach, in which providers are paid based on the amount of healthcare services they deliver. The “value” in value-based care is derived from measuring health outcomes against the cost of delivering those outcomes. PRIMARY BENEFITS: Patients spend less money to achieve better health. Providers become more efficient and provide superior quality care resulting in greater patient satisfaction. Payers control costs and reduce risk by spreading it across a larger patient population. Suppliers align prices with positive patient outcomes and reduced care costs. We become a healthier society while reducing overall healthcare costs. AS MORE HEALTHCARE PAYERS ADOPT VALUE-BASED PAYMENT MODELS, PROVIDERS MUST ADVANCE THEIR POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. But healthcare organizations navigating the transition are faced with a dilemma: They don’t have the data, technology or human capital to support the transition, and they are not operationally structured to provide and manage care before, after and in-between visits—which is largely untouched by encounter based medicine and essential to a more effective health care system. Here's where we can help. Vigilance Health's value based care solutions provide population health management technologies combined with care management, practice transformation and quality improvement teams. We empower healthcare organizations with strategies and programs that reduce the financial burden and facilitate the transition to these new care delivery models—at a comfortable pace with the least amount of operational discomfort. Our suite of services revolve around a unique team of healthcare professionals who have skills and attributes that compliment—rather than replace—a physicians supporting staff. The Vigilance care team performs as an extension of a private practice or health system, brings with them today’s cutting edge population health and care management technologies, and provides care programs that address patient health in-between care encounters. This not only helps providers improve patient care and increase revenue, but it offers them a low-risk way to gain experience and proficiency with population health management and value-based reimbursement models without upfront costs, technology investments or additional staff. For detailed guidance on how to begin the transition to value-based care using population health management service lines, please contact us here to schedule a complimentary consultation with a Vigilance Health Population Health Management Specialist.  

Post-acute care costs the healthcare industry more than $100 billion annually and readmissions cost $30 billion to $40 billion each year. Now that healthcare has shifted to value-based reimbursement, the importance of care coordination has been elevated. When a patient is seen by multiple providers, such as a primary care physician and one or more specialty providers, that patient’s care must be coordinated between those providers to ensure that the care provided by all is efficient and effective. It has become a key feature of evolving care models (Population Health Management or PHM, and Value-Based Care or VBC) designed to avoid episodic care for patients, with a focus on preventative care, reducing the onset of disease, slowing disease progression, and helping patients build healthier habits and lifestyles. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS Financially, value-based care coordination can help reduce costs incurred both by the patient and the independent physician. When reimbursement is based on the quality of care rather than the quantity, your emphasis has to be on optimizing each patient visit and ensuring that your patient is knowledgeable, leaving your office with the appropriate treatment plan, and follows through with the physicians directives. Otherwise, time and money can be wasted on unnecessary repeat office visits, lab tests, and even hospital admissions. VALUE-BASED CARE COORDINATION IS NOT CASE OR DISEASE MANAGEMENT It has a much wider focus. Traditional case management or acute episode management addresses a single event with a focus on utilization, length of stay, and benefits management offering a short term impact. Traditional disease management or chronic condition management addresses a single medical condition, provides education on that condition, and self-care adherence. It has a narrow focus and limited impact. Comprehensive care coordination addresses the whole person; including management of physical and psychosocial issues, community resource referrals, care coordination, behavior modification, healthcare coaching and self-care adherence. It also offers a care transition component, an interdisciplinary team and provider engagement. The primary goal is sustainable behavior change that impacts both the patient and provider. Unlike case managers or care managers of the past, new skills are needed to produce improved results:

1. HEALTHCARE COACHING — Can be defined as helping patients gain the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to become active participants in their own care so they can reach their self-identified health goals.
2. MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING — A gentle form of counseling – which is extremely effective in fostering change in a wide range of health behaviors for all demographics. It works by activating patients own motivation for health changes which significantly improves patient engagement and facilitates a stronger adherence to their Physician’s directives.

WHAT ARE THE TYPICAL MONTHLY CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES?

• First priority: Ensure patient is adhering to physician’s directives
• Identify any obstacles patient may have adhering to directives
• Ensure the beneficiary’s receipt of all recommended preventative services
• Monitor the beneficiary’s condition (physical, mental, social)
• Provide education and address questions from the beneficiary, family, guardian, and/or caregiver
• Motivate patient and promote self-management and investment
• Identify and arrange needed community resources
• Communicate with home health agencies & other community providers utilized by the beneficiary
• Implementation, maintenance & modification with communication of Care Plan

WHY SHOULD PROVIDERS ENGAGE THIS NEW APPROACH TO PATIENT CARE? Health care organizations that leave now can put in place the necessary capabilities and processes that will give them first-mover advantages and increased market share, while others are left behind. And it is hard to disagree with the concept of value-based care and population health management. Done correctly, these care models achieve the Quadruple Aim, improve the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improve the health of populations, and reduce the per capita cost of health care. As Benjamin Franklin once said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” For more detailed guidance on how to leverage care management as a reimbursable service within your practice, please contact us here to schedule a complimentary consultation with a Vigilance Health Care Management Specialist.  

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  April 19, 2018

Dear Vigilance Health partners and future partners, I’m thrilled to be announcing some big news. Vigilance Health is leading the way to realigning healthcare delivery and reimbursement—so our partners can thrive in the new age of accountable care. Our whole team is celebrating today with the launch of our New Population Health Service Lines. Your advice and feedback has been so helpful as we shaped these important new services—thank you! We’re excited to give you the power to take advantage of new value-based care reimbursements and alternative payment methods. Now you can get paid while transitioning to value-based care. But to thrive in this era of health reform, organizations need to adopt a more patient centered approach and provide services offering a high impact on outcome scores. So we combined care management, quality improvement, and practice transformation services with population health IT. This enabled us to provide a "turn-key solution" for healthcare organizations, private practices, and community health centers who see the value of population health services. Here's what you can expect:

• These Population Health Service Lines can be launched in just a few weeks, with no financial risk, no provider or staff burden, and no out of pocket expense.
• They will help get your patients (especially those with chronic conditions) better managed, engaged, and able to take a proactive role in managing their health.
• You'll have effective, profitable, and sustainable prevention and wellness programs led by population health nurses and care managers.
• Your organization will be able to generate new revenue streams, increase margins, and improve profitability with quality bonuses and incentives, higher reimbursements, and new FFS payments for PHM services.
• Every healthcare organization is different, so we're also offering several implementation options, each of them tailored to your specific needs.

Our goal is to help you leverage new value-based revenue opportunities, improve quality scores, and reduce provider / administrative burdens. And these new services will enable you to measure, demonstrate, and ultimately improve patient outcomes—without needing to invest in technology, staff or training. Yes, it’s possible—and we’ve done it! For more information, just give Mark Davis or Ryan Russell a call at (855) 599-2261 or send us an email at contact@vigilancehit.com. Thanks again for a great year! Sincerely, James Coburn CEO, Vigilance Health, Inc

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What is motivational interviewing?

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. The concept of motivational interviewing evolved from experience in the treatment of problem drinkers, and was first described by Miller (1983) in an article published in Behavioural Psychotherapy. Miller and Rollnick later elaborated on these fundamental concepts and approaches in 1991, in a more detailed description of clinical procedures. Motivational interviewing is a directive, client-centered counselling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. It is most centrally defined not by technique but by its spirit as a facilitative style for interpersonal relationship. (Wikipedia:)

Why is it used in a care management setting?

If you've ever tried to change your behavior or kick a bad habit, then you know how difficult it can be. Likewise, it's challenging for providers to get patients to adopt and maintain healthful behavior changes; such as losing weight, starting an exercise program, or keeping up with a medication regimen. Historically, clinicians took a more directive approach to care, giving patients a limited role in the decision-making process. But as healthcare continues to take a more patient-centered approach, care managers will need more effective ways to engage patients. Recently, tools like motivational interviewing and programs that use them (such as Vigilance Health's Care Management Program) can help providers influence patients to make changes and support them along the way. With the right technology, care managers can further optimize motivational interviewing and consistently achieve better outcomes, improve care quality, and reduced patient / provider costs.

How does it work?

Motivational interviewing is non-judgmental, non-confrontational and non-adversarial. The approach attempts to increase the patients's awareness of the potential problems caused, consequences experienced, and risks faced as a result of the behavior in question. Alternatively, or in addition, care managers may help patients envision a better future, and become increasingly more motivated to achieve it. The strategy seeks to help patients think differently about their behavior and ultimately consider what might be gained if the change is made. The focus is on the present, and entails working with a patient to access motivation—to change a particular behavior that is not consistent with a patient's own values or goals. Warmth, genuine empathy, and acceptance are necessary attributes to foster gains. Another central concept is that ambivalence about decisions is resolved by conscious and unconscious weighing of pros and cons of change vs. not changing. The main goals of motivational interviewing are to engage patients, elicit change talk, and evoke patient motivation to make positive changes. Change talk can be elicited by asking the client questions, such as

"How would you like things to be different?" or "How does ______ interfere with things that you would like to do?"

Change may occur quickly or may take considerable time, depending on the patient. Knowledge alone is usually not sufficient to motivate change, and challenges in maintaining change should be thought of as the rule, not the exception. For a care manager to succeed at motivational interviewing, they should first establish four basic interaction skills. These skills include:

• The ability to ask open-ended questions
• The ability to provide affirmations
• The capacity for reflective listening
• The ability to periodically provide summary statements to the client.

These skills are used strategically, while focusing on a variety of topics, such as looking back, reflecting on a typical day, the importance of change, looking forward, and examining one's confidence about behavior changes.

MI empowers patients to change behavior and commit to better health—on their terms.

Ultimately, care managers must recognize that motivational interviewing involves collaboration not confrontation, evocation not education, autonomy rather than authority, and exploration instead of explanation. Effective processes for positive change focus on goals that are small, important to the patient, specific, realistic, and oriented in the present and/or future. While there are as many variations in technique as there are clinical encounters, the spirit of the method, however, is more enduring and can be characterized in a few key points:

1. Motivation to change is elicited from the patient, and is not imposed from outside forces.
2. It is the patient's task, not the care manager's, to articulate and resolve the client's ambivalence.
3. Direct persuasion is not an effective method for resolving ambivalence.
4. The counseling style is generally quiet and elicits information from the patient.
5. The care manager is directive, in that they help the patient to examine and resolve ambivalence.
6. Readiness to change is not a trait of the patient, but a fluctuating result of interpersonal interaction.
7. The relationship resembles a partnership or companionship.

Patient engagement continues to be critical in modern healthcare delivery. This is especially true in care management, where care managers and patients collaborate to drive better outcomes at reduced costs—particularly when it involves chronic conditions. By using motivational interviewing / healthcare coaching techniques and leveraging comprehensive care management technologies, Vigilance Health can facilitate and significantly improve patient engagement. Our care managers help patients become true partners in their own care, and empower them to make positive changes to their health. Click here for information on the Vigilance Health Chronic Care Management program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1501788120003{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}"][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501854007091{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_row_inner hide_on_mobile="true"][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text="MEDICARE ACCESS & CHIP REAUTHORIZATION ACT" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header style="pt-style-1" align="center" title="UNDERSTANDING MACRA, MIPS, AND ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT METHODS" lead_margin_top="20PX" lead_margin_left="150px" lead_margin_right="150px"]MACRA repeals the Medicare Part B Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) reimbursement formula and replaces it with a new value-based reimbursement system called the Quality Payment Program (QPP). 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Providers have between January 1, 2017 and October 2, 2017 to begin reporting their data.[/ut_header][ut_animated_image size="large" align="center" image="3338"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" hide_on_mobile="true" css=".vc_custom_1503092639619{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}"][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1501788102669{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}"][ut_parallax_quote quotation_marks="no" icon_border_radius="50" quote_font_source="google" quote_google_fonts="font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal" quote_font_size="24" cite_font_source="google" cite_google_fonts="font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal" cite_font_size="12" cite_letter_spacing="5" css=".vc_custom_1502769874070{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-image: url(https://www.vigilancehealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cubes.png?id=617) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}" icon="fa fa-quote-left" icon_background_color="#000d1a" quote_color="#333333" icon_color="#f4f4f4" cite="VIGILANCE HEALTH" cite_color="#00aae0"]Only time will tell how the public release of the MIPS score will impact providers. The question is "how will it affect your organization's reputation and ultimately - the bottom line." [/ut_parallax_quote][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" hide_on_desktop="true" hide_on_tablet="true" css=".vc_custom_1503092648028{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}"][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1501788102669{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}"][ut_parallax_quote quotation_marks="no" icon_border_radius="50" quote_font_source="google" quote_google_fonts="font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal" quote_font_size="24" cite_font_source="google" cite_google_fonts="font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal" cite_font_size="12" cite_letter_spacing="5" css=".vc_custom_1503092685153{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-image: url(https://www.vigilancehealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cubes.png?id=617) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}" icon="fa fa-quote-left" icon_background_color="#000d1a" quote_color="#333333" icon_color="#f4f4f4" cite="VIGILANCE HEALTH" cite_color="#00aae0"]Only time will tell how the public release of the MIPS score will impact providers. The question is "how will it affect your organization's reputation and ultimately - the bottom line." [/ut_parallax_quote][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row hide_on_mobile="true" css=".vc_custom_1503092734964{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 120px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2" delay="true" effect="fadeInLeft" delay_timer="100"][vc_custom_heading text="MEASURING PERFORMANCE" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header align="left" title="CALCULATING A COMPOSITE PERFORMACE SCORE" lead_margin_right="50px"]CMS is instituting a “unified scoring system” for MIPS that differs from how previous Medicare quality programs were evaluated in several ways: 1.) Measures and performance in each MIPS performance category will be converted to points 2.) Eligible clinicians will know in advance what they need to submit to achieve top performance 3.) Partial credit is available. The MIPS unified scoring system results in calculating a Composite Performance Score for all participating clinicians that represents performance in the four categories on a scale of 0-100 points. Each performance category is assigned a weighted value, which can change each performance year. The MIPS scoring methodology is also intended to take into account situations of exceptional performance, evaluation at the group or individual provider performance level, and the special circumstances of small practices, practices located in rural areas, and non-patient-facing MIPS eligible clinicians.[/ut_header][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2" delay="true" effect="fadeInRight" delay_timer="100"][ut_animated_image size="large" align="center" image="3332"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row hide_on_desktop="true" hide_on_tablet="true" css=".vc_custom_1503092782000{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner delay="true" effect="fadeInLeft" delay_timer="100"][vc_custom_heading text="MEASURING PERFORMANCE" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header style="pt-style-2" align="center" title="CALCULATING A COMPOSITE PERFORMACE SCORE"]CMS is instituting a “unified scoring system” for MIPS that differs from how previous Medicare quality programs were evaluated in several ways: 1.) Measures and performance in each MIPS performance category will be converted to points 2.) Eligible clinicians will know in advance what they need to submit to achieve top performance 3.) Partial credit is available. The MIPS unified scoring system results in calculating a Composite Performance Score for all participating clinicians that represents performance in the four categories on a scale of 0-100 points. Each performance category is assigned a weighted value, which can change each performance year. The MIPS scoring methodology is also intended to take into account situations of exceptional performance, evaluation at the group or individual provider performance level, and the special circumstances of small practices, practices located in rural areas, and non-patient-facing MIPS eligible clinicians.[/ut_header][ut_animated_image size="large" align="center" image="3332"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section hide_on_mobile="true" css_animation="none" css=".vc_custom_1503092902658{padding-top: 150px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;background-color: #000d1a !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_row][vc_column delay="true" effect="zoomIn" delay_timer="100"][vc_custom_heading text="WINNING STRATEGY" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header align="left" title="WHAT ARE THE FINANCIAL IMPACTS?" title_color="#ffffff" lead_color="#b3b3b3"]The potential MIPS incentives and penalties via value-based payment adjustments are substantial. The financial impacts of these scores can amount to millions of dollars per organization and will significantly grow over the course of the next several years. Penalties assessed for poor performance or noncompliance will be used to fund incentive payments for high performers, so the “winners” effectively will be paid by the “losers.”[/ut_header][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column delay="true" effect="zoomIn" delay_timer="100"][ut_animated_image size="large" align="right" delay="true" image="3331" effect="none" delay_timer="100"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section hide_on_desktop="true" hide_on_tablet="true" css_animation="none" css=".vc_custom_1503093084972{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;background-color: #000d1a !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_row][vc_column delay="true" effect="zoomIn" delay_timer="100"][vc_custom_heading text="WINNING STRATEGY" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header style="pt-style-2" align="center" title="WHAT ARE THE FINANCIAL IMPACTS?" title_color="#ffffff" lead_color="#b3b3b3"]The potential MIPS incentives and penalties via value-based payment adjustments are substantial. The financial impacts of these scores can amount to millions of dollars per organization and will significantly grow over the course of the next several years. Penalties assessed for poor performance or noncompliance will be used to fund incentive payments for high performers, so the “winners” effectively will be paid by the “losers.”[/ut_header][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column delay="true" effect="zoomIn" delay_timer="100"][ut_animated_image size="large" align="right" delay="true" image="3331" effect="none" delay_timer="100"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1502484741063{padding-top: 180px !important;padding-bottom: 150px !important;}"][vc_row hide_on_mobile="true"][vc_column width="1/2" delay="true" effect="fadeInLeft" delay_timer="100"][vc_custom_heading text="PUBLISHED RESULTS" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header align="left" title="WHAT ARE THE REPUTATIONAL IMPACTS?" title_color="#000000" lead_margin_right="50px"]MIPS will publish on a website each eligible clinician’s annual final score and the scores for each MIPS performance category within approximately 12 months after the end of the relevant performance year. For the first time, consumers will be able to see their clinicians rated on a scale of 0 to 100 and how they compare to peers nationally. The provider’s MIPS score could effect the decision making of individual patients, provider networks, medical staff credentialing, professional liability insurance, among other things.[/ut_header][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" delay="true" effect="fadeInRight" delay_timer="100"][ut_animated_image size="large" align="right" image="3339"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row hide_on_desktop="true" hide_on_tablet="true" css=".vc_custom_1503093258358{margin-top: -80px !important;}"][vc_column delay="true" effect="fadeInLeft" delay_timer="100"][vc_custom_heading text="PUBLISHED RESULTS" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header style="pt-style-2" align="center" title="WHAT ARE THE REPUTATIONAL IMPACTS?" title_color="#000000"]MIPS will publish on a website each eligible clinician’s annual final score and the scores for each MIPS performance category within approximately 12 months after the end of the relevant performance year. For the first time, consumers will be able to see their clinicians rated on a scale of 0 to 100 and how they compare to peers nationally. The provider’s MIPS score could effect the decision making of individual patients, provider networks, medical staff credentialing, professional liability insurance, among other things.[/ut_header][ut_animated_image size="large" align="center" image="3339"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row hide_on_mobile="true" css=".vc_custom_1503093291553{padding-top: 80px !important;}"][vc_column width="1/2" delay="true" effect="fadeInLeft" delay_timer="100" css=".vc_custom_1502742878229{margin-right: 50px !important;}"][ut_animated_image size="large" image="3343"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" delay="true" effect="fadeInRight" delay_timer="100" css=".vc_custom_1502742969177{margin-left: 50px !important;}"][vc_custom_heading text="POSITIVE ADJUSTMENTS" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header align="left" title="TOP PERFORMERS WILL BE REWARDED" title_color="#000000" lead_margin_right="50px"]In 2017, a Composite Performance Score of three points will ensure that an eligible clinician or group will avoid a negative payment adjustment. Three points can be earned by reporting at least one quality measure, at least one improvement activity, or all five base measures in the Advancing Care Information category. Though it is relatively easy to avoid a negative payment adjustment in the 2017 (more difficult in 2018 and beyond), there is still a reason to strive for stellar performance. Exceptional performers who achieve a MIPS Composite Performance Score of at least 70 out of 100 will be eligible for an additional positive adjustment from a bonus pool of $500 million.[/ut_header][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row hide_on_desktop="true" hide_on_tablet="true" css=".vc_custom_1503093508301{margin-bottom: -70px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;}"][vc_column delay="true" effect="fadeInLeft" delay_timer="100" css=".vc_custom_1502742878229{margin-right: 50px !important;}"][vc_custom_heading text="POSITIVE ADJUSTMENTS" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:center|color:%2300aae0" use_theme_fonts="yes"][ut_header style="pt-style-2" align="center" title="TOP PERFORMERS WILL BE REWARDED" title_color="#000000"]In 2017, a Composite Performance Score of three points will ensure that an eligible clinician or group will avoid a negative payment adjustment. Three points can be earned by reporting at least one quality measure, at least one improvement activity, or all five base measures in the Advancing Care Information category. Though it is relatively easy to avoid a negative payment adjustment in the 2017 (more difficult in 2018 and beyond), there is still a reason to strive for stellar performance. Exceptional performers who achieve a MIPS Composite Performance Score of at least 70 out of 100 will be eligible for an additional positive adjustment from a bonus pool of $500 million.[/ut_header][ut_animated_image size="large" align="center" image="3343"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]