While the passage of the Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015 was intended to address the decade-long problem of possible double digit cuts to physicians’ reimbursement ...

Today, CMS released a Request for Information related to new provisions in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA): Merit-based Incentive Payment System, Alternative ...

In January 2016, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt announced that CMS would update Meaningful Use to focus more on patient care and outcomes. At ...

MACRA threatens to push many providers out of fee-for-service before they have a safe place to land. Policy makers should consider both making the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System less onerous ...

The MACRA final rule is scheduled for release in November, 2016, just three months prior to the first MIPS performance year. As the MACRA implementation process moves forward, ...

James C. Capretta and Lanhee J. Chen on a 962-page rule called Macra that uses Medicare-type payment regulations to put the federal government between doctors and hospitals and their patients.

MACRA MACRA MACRA. You may have heard the puns but it turns out many physicians still haven't heard of the legislation that will affect an estimated 592,119 to 642,119 clinicians. Because 2017 ...

In the low-risk MACRA scenario, physician revenue is $35 billion lower than the pre-MACRA baseline over 15 years for a 2.3% decrease. The highest-risk MACRA scenario comes in at $106 billion, ...

Although the MACRA legislation is conceptually sound, much of the final legislative language is complex and vague. The success or failure of the legislation therefore rests with the decisions ...

A COLLEAGUE of mine, who combines a mischievous sense humour with irrepressible lack of respect for the pomposities of life, heard of where I was going at the weekend.