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 ...

Fixes are harder to come by, although pay increases based on inflation are popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting in 2019, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will change how they pay physicians in a profound way. Unfortunately, the details are complicated and confusing, and many of the particulars ...

Last April, to the relief of many providers, Congress passed the permanent “doc-fix” to repeal the flawed sustainable growth rate formula that determined Medicare physician fees. It was replaced with ...

With Donald Trump's election comes mass speculation on the direction his healthcare plans will take. He has long sworn to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and the proposal floated on his ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) earlier this week introduced free online tools to help individual physicians understand how Medicare's new payment system will impact their practice next year, ...