HealthLeaders Media August 9, 2017
Gregory A. Freeman

A system that encourages shared savings and shared risk between health plans and providers could address many of the Affordable Care Act’s problems. Health plans are likely to move away from fee-for-service payments to a managed care approach, one analyst says.

The government could be sitting on a solution to the healthcare debate and not even realize it, suggests one analyst. The act that finally fixed a problem threatening to bankrupt physicians every year could show the way to fixing the Affordable Care Act, he says.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) may provide a roadmap and policy vehicle to address questions of quality, cost, accessibility, says Bruce A. Johnson, JD, a shareholder with the Polsinelli law firm...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Primary care, Provider
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