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August 3, 2016 | RACMonitor
Think of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) as a 1,500-piece jigsaw puzzle, or a pathway to success in tying payments to value. Every piece of the puzzle is integral to strategic planning and sustainable...
August 2, 2016 | AAFP News
When HHS' much anticipated proposed rule on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was released late in June, many physicians across the country heaved a sigh of relief.
Although the proposed rule needs improvement, ...
August 2, 2016 | JAMA
President Obama is the only sitting president of the United States in modern history to publish an article inJAMA. That seems appropriate since he is also the only recent president to sign comprehensive health reform legislation, the...
August 1, 2016 | American Academy of Pediatrics
BACKGROUND: Pediatricians are central in leading the family-centered medical home (FCMH), yet little is known about how provider-perceived barriers to and attitudes toward the FCMH affect implementation. This study aims to assess the...
August 1, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 1, 2016
Statement Attributable to:
Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
President & CEO
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
PCPCC Pleased by Federal Announcement of 14 Regions Selected to Participate in...
August 1, 2016 | CMS
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened the application period for practices to participate in the new nation-wide primary care model, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). CPC+ is a five-year primary care...
August 1, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS will launch an ambitious primary-care quality improvement initiative in 14 regions, including 11 whole states. The states include Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island and...
August 1, 2016 | Healio
Today marks the beginning of the enrollment period for CMS’ Comprehensive Primary Care Plus program, a new medical home model designed to reform the way primary care is delivered and paid for in select regions across the United States....
August 1, 2016 | Health Data Management
Applications for physician organizations to participate in the federal government’s new medical home model program, the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus or CPC+, now are available.
The shift to the new programs is expected to place...
July 30, 2016 | Modern Healthcare
Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt has a lot of explaining to do. And a lot of listening. In recent months, the agency issued draft rules carrying out what's intended to bring transformational change to the way Medicare pays physicians...
July 27, 2016 | Psychiatric Times
As health care is redesigned and primary health care reemphasized, the move toward integrating behavioral health care with primary medical care appears to be accelerating across the country. It’s now broadly accepted that a number of...
July 25, 2016 | Healthcare Finance News
In a continuing dialog with providers on MACRA, Andy Slavitt addressed the American Osteopathic Association at their annual meeting Friday, once again hinting at a possible delay in implementation so that providers, especially smaller...
July 22, 2016 | The Hill
From a major speech by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to a recent report from the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, there has been a renewed interest by Democrats in monopolies and market consolidation. From tech to airlines, they argue,...
July 20, 2016 | Physicians Practice
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are comprised of healthcare providers that unite to fill gaps in individualized care of Medicare patients. "If we focus more on team-based care, with the patient at the center, and optimize quality...
July 19, 2016 | Market Watch
Tonight, countless acute mental-health patients desperate for help will arrive at their local emergency room only to be detained under guard for days as they wait for suitable psychiatric care. It’s a crisis of health-care delivery that,...
July 18, 2016 | Medical Economics
The passage of the Medicare & CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 has formally defined the role that a new set of reimbursement models, known collectively by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as Alternative...
July 18, 2016 | Medical Economics
New strides toward better care and spending can stir up plenty of blowback along the way, but CMS has shown a willingness to listen and adjust, this time by allowing ACOs to jump aboard the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) train – an...
July 18, 2016 | Healthcare Finance News
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, known as MACRA, will be one of the most dramatic changes to how Medicare pays physicians. But the marrying of quality-based reimbursement with demonstrated use of technologies and...
July 18, 2016 | Healthcare Finance News
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 of their work and the steps they take...
July 18, 2016 | Vox Science and Health
Watching a person die from cardiac arrest in an intensive care unit is devastating. It’s especially so when the person is a woman in her 40s who has been smothered to death by her own weight — and we doctors can do nothing to save her....
