{"id":1121988,"date":"2021-12-15T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121988"},"modified":"2021-12-15T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:58:36","slug":"biden-admin-proposes-bonuses-for-doctors-who-implement-anti-racism-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-proposes-bonuses-for-doctors-who-implement-anti-racism-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Proposes Bonuses For Doctors Who Implement \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-proposes-bonuses-for-doctors-who-implement-anti-racism-plans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"33.878947368421\">\n<p>The Biden administration is proposing bonus payments to physicians who incorporate \u201canti-racism\u201d plans into their practices.<\/p>\n<p>Among the proposed \u201cClinical Practice Improvement Activities\u201d for calendar year 2022 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/27\/medicare-medicaid-government-waste-spending-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services<\/a> is to \u201ccreate and implement an anti-racism plan.\u201d Completing a certain number of improvement activities helps physicians qualify for Medicare\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicefusion.com\/quality-payment-program\/what-is-mips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merit-Based Incentive Payment System<\/a> (MIPS).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.1578947368421\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Medicare is planning to establish bonus payments for physicians who \u201ccreate and implement an anti-racism plan\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBZgMXdpOg\">https:\/\/t.co\/XBZgMXdpOg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fUzre6jcKg\">pic.twitter.com\/fUzre6jcKg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Pope (@CPopeHC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPopeHC\/status\/1470773158403842058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2021-14973.pdf#page=1695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the proposal<\/a>, clinics should have value statements and policies that are \u201caligned with a commitment to anti-racism and an understanding of race as a political and social construct, not a physiological one.\u201d It also states that \u201cthis activity begins with the premise that it is important to acknowledge systemic racism as a root cause for differences in health outcomes between socially defined racial groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal cites <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/26\/biden-executive-order-crt-diversity-equity-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/06\/25\/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order<\/a> on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the federal workforce. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/15\/poll-omicron-variant-covid-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: POLL: Huge Majority Of Americans Oppose New Omicron Mandates)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.1304347826087\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don\u2019t remember any Rs pushing back against this provision when MACRA was enacted in 2015, but you can easily see how it\u2019s a lot more controversial today:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d0JN9XqNWZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/d0JN9XqNWZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hNsjB5kTMU\">pic.twitter.com\/hNsjB5kTMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Pope (@CPopeHC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPopeHC\/status\/1470837325106188302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MIPS was enacted as a part of bipartisan legislation passed in 2015. Clinical Practice Improvement Activities make up 15% of the \u201cMIPS Matrix,\u201d which also includes Quality, Resource Use and Access to Care Information. One of the nine improvement activity categories is \u201chealth equity,\u201d which the anti-racism proposal falls under.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is proposing bonus payments to physicians who incorporate \u201canti-racism\u201d plans into their practices.Among the proposed \u201cClinical Practice Improvement Activities\u201d for calendar year 2022 by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}