H&HN January 17, 2017
5 steps for hospitals to prepare for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program
The Jan. 1 launch of Medicare’s new clinician payment system under the MACRA law — the Quality Payment Program — promises to tie a greater percentage of payment to performance, and to accelerate health care’s shift to new value-based payment models. But many small rural hospitals have more immediate concerns.
“It’s been a struggle to know how this is going to affect us and determine how we move forward,” says Rebekah Mussman, president and CEO of the Crete (Neb.) Area Medical Center, a critical access hospital.
The Quality Payment Program — established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, the final rule of which was...
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