Health Affairs April 20, 2017
Joseph Antos and James Capretta

Over the past several years, the federal government has put billions of dollars into a variety of programs aimed at improving the way health care is delivered. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorized a broad agenda of reform projects, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), bundled payments, value-based purchasing, primary care initiatives, and other payment and service delivery models. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 established new ways of paying physicians intended to promote high-quality patient care.

What will happen to these initiatives under a Congress where Republicans are still seeking to enact major new health reforms and a president who could aggressively use authority granted by the ACA to make sweeping changes in Medicare and other...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Congress / White House, Employer, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Public Exchange, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Regulations, Self-insured, Value Based
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