Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. The nation’s doctors, facing a tsunami of changes in how they are paid, ...

Just a week after the election changes are already starting to take place in Washington in advance of the transition from President Obama to the administration President-elect Donald Trump is ...

Now that a new administration will be taking office—one that has vowed to make huge changes in healthcare—many doctors are wondering whether the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is ...

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is a complex law that will affect physicians in a wide variety of ways for many years to come. It covers such issues as data reporting, new ...

FALSE. This is not the aim of MACRA, though this could be an outcome. The MACRA legislation and the Quality Payment Program regulations specifically outline the potential harmful effects on small and ...

MACRA is the next generation of healthcare legislation, and it's sweeping. The new rule hopes to drive the mass transition to value-based reimbursement, with doctors getting paid based on the quality ...

Nearly half of U.S. physicians are unfamiliar with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, also known as MACRA, according to a new survey of 600 doctors by research and consulting ...

The Obama administration said today it will allow for ongoing input, comment and “fewer burdens” for physicians from the newly unveiled "MACRA" final rule that ties doctor Medicare payments to quality ...

The mother ship has landed. On Wednesday, April 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated proposed rule that would establish key parameters for the new ...

At the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, oncologists heard from fellow experts on the best way to navigate the daunting challenge of payment reform. the Medicare Access and ...

I’ve read and taken detailed notes on the entire 962-page MACRA notice of proposed rulemaking so that you will not have to. Although this post is long, it is better than the 20 hours of reading I had ...