H&HN June 14, 2016
Matt O'Connor

The acting administrator for CMS tries to calm fears at the AMA’s 2016 House of Delegates Annual Meeting.

The newly proposed Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act will be implemented over the next 10 years, and Andy Slavitt, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, described to a room full of influential physicians how the implementation of the new plan will relieve some of the long-accumulating burden physicians are feeling.

“We’re hearing some hard and important truths — physicians are frustrated,” Slavitt said during his Monday presentation at the American Medical Association’s 2016 House of Delegates Annual Meeting.

During his staff’s meetings with more than 6,300 stakeholders across the country and the more than 135 events...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Value Based
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