MACRA

How MACRA Legislation Advances Value-Based Care Reimbursement

by Vera Gruessner

MACRA legislation may play a major part in advancing the adoption of value-based care reimbursement among both payers and providers. CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt emphasized this past May that...

How MACRA Requirements Impact Accountable Care Organizations

by Vera Gruessner

MACRA legislation impacts a number of healthcare providers and entities including accountable care organizations (ACOs). Only a few Medicare accountable care organizations will actually be able to...

MACRA Implementation Solutions Payers, Providers Should Follow

by Vera Gruessner

MACRA implementation will take place across the healthcare industry starting next year, as more and more providers begin participating in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and and the...

Private Payers Falling Behind in MACRA Implementation, APMs

by Vera Gruessner

Earlier this month, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced the release of the finalized ruling for the MACRA legislation. Along with gutting the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate...

How Stakeholder Input on Quality Payment Program Differs

by Vera Gruessner

At the end of last week, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a final rule on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and its policies on the new...

HHS, CMS Announce Finalized Ruling for MACRA Legislation

by Vera Gruessner

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced in a press release the discharge of the final ruling on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The MACRA...

58% of Payers, Providers Adapt Value-Based Care Reimbursement

by Vera Gruessner

Several surveys from 2016 show that more healthcare providers and payers than ever before are implementing value-based care reimbursement contracts and moving away from traditional fee-for-service...

How MACRA Resolves Sustainable Growth Rate Formula Challenges

by Vera Gruessner

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) will likely simplify and improve Medicare reimbursement processes due to the fact that it repeals the flawed sustainable growth rate...

CMS Reveals 4 Options for Quality Payment Program Participation

by Vera Gruessner

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working toward assisting healthcare providers in meeting some new regulations that are part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act...

CMS Bundled Payment Models Address Cardiac Care, Hip Surgeries

by Vera Gruessner

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently begun implementing additional alternative payment models centered on episodes of care. CMS has proposed new rules for managing the...

How the MACRA Rule, Baby Boomers Impact Medicare Payment

by Vera Gruessner

Last month, Andrew Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), spoke at the American Medical Association 2016 Annual Meeting about new strategies to pay for...

Coordination, Interoperability Key for MACRA Requirements

by Vera Gruessner

Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), which will essentially drop meaningful...

MACRA Rule Revolutionizes the US Healthcare Payment System

by Vera Gruessner

Earlier this week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rulemaking regarding the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The MACRA...

New Proposed MACRA Rule Renovates Information Technology Use

by Vera Gruessner

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has proposed new rules regarding the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) which will essentially remove the meaningful use...

New Framework for MACRA’s Alternative Payment Models Released

by Vera Gruessner

Earlier this year, the federal government passed the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), which reforms the Medicare program by abolishing the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)...

MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Removes SGR Flaws

by Vera Gruessner

Did you know that healthcare payment legislation passed earlier this year allows providers to take part in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a quality program from the Centers for...

How MACRA Affects Future of Healthcare Payment Models

by Vera Gruessner

Earlier this year, the federal government repealed the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) Formula, which affected the future of healthcare payment models all across the board. Recently, the Centers...