AMA June 10, 2019
Redirecting the U.S. health care system away from government regulation and toward free-market competition will nurture innovation, improve care with physicians competing on cost and quality and allow patients to make their own decisions about their care, Seema Verma, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, told physicians at the 2019 AMA Annual Meeting.
In a 24-minute speech preceding the business session of the AMA House of Delegates, Verma focused on the CMS Patients Over Paperwork initiative, efforts to simplify the new Medicare payment system created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), reforming payment for evaluation and management (E/M) services and interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems.
She said many well-intended government policies...
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