AAPM&R has signed on to a letter, along with the American Medical Association (AMA), urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to lessen or not enforce penalties from the 2016 reporting year. These penalties are planned to be realized in 2018 and involve the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Meaningful Use (MU), and the Value-Based Modifier (VBM).
Read the letter here.