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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)—aka the “SGR” repeal ...

John O’Shea is a senior fellow in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He has been a practicing general surgeon for more than 20 years, and was formerly a senior ...

If MACRA is to achieve its original goals, policy makers need to incentivize participation in alternatives to fee-for-service at all levels. ... Incorporating Medicare Advantage Into MACRA.

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Doctors are about to hear a lot more about the MACRA "virtual groups" provision, ... public policy and communications for the group. RELATED: Doctor groups upbeat about proposed 2018 MACRA changes.

Pre-MACRA Medicare incentive programs remain in place. In this scenario, the starting point is 2014, ... Lead author Peter Hussey, PhD, a senior policy researcher at RAND, ...

While many worried that MACRA, as outlined in an initial proposed rule that came out last April, would hurt small practices, Koslow and Sexton warn that worry does not go away with the final rule.

The proposed MACRA implementation rule was released earlier this month,. As stakeholders have begun to exit their libraries -- glazed over from taking in parts or all of the 962-page tome ...