The Small Business Administration (SBA) has extended their deadline to apply for a COVID-19 pandemic Economic Injury Disaster Loan to December 31, 2021.
SBA loans terms include a 3.75% interest rate for small businesses and 2.75% for non-profit organizations, a 30-year maturity, and an automatic deferment of one year before monthly payments begin.
Effective January 1st, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Evaluation and Management (E&M) coding and documentation requirements have been changed. While some of the items remain the same, some of the items to keep in mind include:
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an update to the 2021 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG) for Eligible Clinicians and Eligible Professionals to support Calendar Year (CY) 2021 reporting. The update includes the list of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) finalized by CMS for the CY 2021 Performance Period based on the CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule released on December 1, 2020. It also includes information for Improvement Activity Identifiers, Promoting Interoperability Objectives and Measures, and Promoting Interoperability Attestation Statement Identifiers finalized by CMS for the CY 2021 Performance Period based on the CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule.
OCR is sharing an update with our listserv from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), addressing an active exploitation of SolarWinds Orion Platform software versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1, released between March 2020 and June 2020, which could significantly compromise information systems:
Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Application
To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception application deadline to February 1, 2021.
For the 2020 performance year, CMS will be using our Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances policy to allow MIPS eligible clinicians, groups, and virtual groups to submit an application requesting reweighting of one or more MIPS performance categories to 0% due to the current COVID-19 public health emergency.
We understand that there may be circumstances out of your control that make it difficult for you to meet program requirements. To reduce this burden, we provide an opportunity for qualifying clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and (as proposed) APM Entities to apply for performance category reweighting for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
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