Now that a new administration will be taking office—one that has vowed to make huge changes in healthcare—many doctors are wondering whether the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is ...

FALSE. This is not the aim of MACRA, though this could be an outcome. The MACRA legislation and the Quality Payment Program regulations specifically outline the potential harmful effects on small and ...

Just a week after the election changes are already starting to take place in Washington in advance of the transition from President Obama to the administration President-elect Donald Trump is ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is a complex law that will affect physicians in a wide variety of ways for many years to come. It covers such issues as data reporting, new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. The nation’s doctors, facing a tsunami of changes in how they are paid, ...

MACRA is the next generation of healthcare legislation, and it's sweeping. The new rule hopes to drive the mass transition to value-based reimbursement, with doctors getting paid based on the quality ...

I’ve read and taken detailed notes on the entire 962-page MACRA notice of proposed rulemaking so that you will not have to. Although this post is long, it is better than the 20 hours of reading I had ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) needs to be reimagined get back on track and to live up to its promise to incentivize value-based care. The Medicare Access and CHIP ...

The mother ship has landed. On Wednesday, April 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated proposed rule that would establish key parameters for the new ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) surprised everyone with its earlier than expected release on Friday, October 14, 2016 of the MACRA final rule. Given ongoing updates from CMS, the ...

The Obama administration said today it will allow for ongoing input, comment and “fewer burdens” for physicians from the newly unveiled "MACRA" final rule that ties doctor Medicare payments to quality ...