Physician Groups Ask CMS to Re-Evaluate Deadlines for Programs and Penalties

The American Medical Association sent a letter to CMS expressing concern about regulations with overlapping timelines, including the value-based modifier, ICD-10, the electronic prescribing program and physician quality reporting system.

"Facing all of these deadlines at once is overwhelming to physicians, whose top priority is patients," said AMA President-elect Jeremy Lazarus, MD. "We have asked CMS to develop solutions for implementing these regulations in a way that reduces the burden on physicians and allows them to keep their focus where it should be — caring for patients."

The letter was co-signed by other organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians.

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