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Ms. Sage is Quality Affairs Manager, ACS Division of Advocacy and Health Policy.

Posts by Jill Sage, MPH:

• The QPP in 2022
• Expressing value in health care
• The Quality Payment Program in 2021
• ONLINE FIRST: What surgeons should know about…Quality Payment Program in 2021
• Quality as a program, not a measure: An opportunity for health insurers to value quality as a comprehensive program
• What to expect from the 2020 Quality Payment Program
• Redefining surgical value in the Quality Payment Program
• What to expect from the 2019 Quality Payment Program
• The 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practices
• The 2018 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule
• Provisions in the 2016 Medicare physician fee schedule that will affect surgical practice: An overview
• 2015 Medicare fee schedule: How the changes will affect surgical practice
• The FY 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule
• The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• The Measure Applications Partnership
• 2014 fee schedule and CPT code changes will affect surgical practice
• Using S-CAHPS