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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting in 2019, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will change how they pay physicians in a profound way. Unfortunately, the details are complicated and confusing, and many of the particulars ...

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 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 ...

With the release of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act final rule last month, the move toward pay-for-performance has crossed a Rubicon. No longer a theoretical concept or something to ...

The Trump administration is considering releasing a rule to ease the burden that small practices are facing in trying to comply with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), ...

This sweeping proposal is the biggest step yet in shifting reimbursement from a volume-based to a value-based system. Stakeholders offered mixed opinions this week. On Wednesday, CMS released a ...

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, ...

With the October release of the final rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, physician practices across the country are bracing for dramatic change. MACRA, a landmark ...

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 ...