The American Medical Association (AMA), along with state and national
medical specialty societies, have sent a letter to the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expressing serious concern about
an onslaught of overlapping regulations that affect physicians. Programs
with overlapping timelines include the value-based modifier, penalties
under the e-prescribing program, physician quality reporting system
(PQRS) and EHR incentive program, along with the transition to ICD-10.
"We urge CMS to re-evaluate the penalty timelines associated with
these programs and examine the administrative and financial burdens and
intersection of these various federal regulatory programs,” the letter
read. "We also urge CMS to use its discretionary authority provided by
Congress under these programs to develop solutions for synchronizing
these programs to minimize burdens to physician practices, and propose
these solutions in the physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar
year 2013.”
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