Executive Briefings | October 24, 2016
MACRA: The Big Picture
Within the past two weeks, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rules for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 or MACRA (see MACRA Finalized, Changes To Medicare Payment System Start January 2017). Like all new federal initiatives, there are lots of new acronyms — like MIPS and APMs — and new definitions. I think the implications of MACRA are not in the specific details, but in what it represents in the . . .