MACRA Implementation: What Is at Stake and What Is Needed heritage.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heritage.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is the product of four years of work that included input from multiple stakeholders and was signed into law on April 16, 2015, following broad bipartisan support in Congress. Implementation of MACRA began on January 1, 2017. The legislation, as originally conceived, had three fundamental goals. The first goal was to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) physician payment formula, a major cause of uncertainty and instability for more than a decade. The legislation did that.
Physician groups lobby Congress for pay hike with hopes for bigger reform modernhealthcare.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernhealthcare.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.