HealthLeaders Media August 1, 2016
The move from meaningful use to the value-based payment world of MACRA, MIPS, and the APMs is coming into focus.
Meaningful use as we knew it changed on April 14, 2015. And what it’s becoming is still being discerned by physicians, healthcare executives, and the industry at large.
On that date, a large bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA. MACRA permanently repeals the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate formula for determining Medicare payments for clinicians’ services. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, it also establishes a new framework for rewarding clinicians for value over volume, and streamlines other existing quality-reporting programs into a single new system.
Randy McCleese
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