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About 90,000 clinicians who participated in advanced alternative payment models in 2017 are concerned that they haven’t received bonuses from the CMS.
Advanced alternative payment models, also known as advanced APMs, were created under MACRA in 2015 and offer an opportunity for clinicians to receive a 5% bonus to their Medicare payments if they participate. It requires clinicians to take on significant downside risk. The CMS said it would provide the positive payment adjustment in 2019 to eligible clinicians who participated in 2017. But providers are worried the bonuses still haven’t been distributed.