The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that for years had resulted in an eleventh-hour intervention by Congress to avoid drastic ...

MACRA COMMENT PERIOD ENDS: Most of Washington’s health policy wonks spent the last two months reading, digesting and writing comments on CMS’s proposed regulation that implements the massive ...

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 ...

The intended goals of the MACRA legislation are sound, but there is a situation in which MIPS will become increasingly untenable for a large number of providers.

MACRA threatens to push many providers out of fee-for-service before they have a safe place ... a large number of providers will be pushed out of FFS and over the cliff before they have a safe ...

LOBBYING: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MACRA: The number of organizations lobbying on MACRA -- Medicare’s pending massive physician payment reform -- doubled in the second quarter, as CMS published its ...

MACRA will eliminate the sustainable growth rate formula and replace it with a 0.5% annual rate increase through 2019, ... so the overall number of participants is expected to keep growing.

MACRA: Where do we go from here? Focusing on 3 outcomes per specialty which are easily measurable, while radically focusing certification on a few key interoperability transactions is likely to ...

More than 2 years since then-President Barack Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act — or MACRA — into law, many medical professionals appear to need assistance on ...