Medicare physician payments are evolving: Three things that providers should be aware of regarding the proposed MACRA rule

The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and the Center for Health Policy at Brookings have partnered to create the Leonard D. Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy, which includes this analysis. Using the combined resources of USC and Brookings, the Initiative seeks to use rigorous, evidence-based analysis to educate the national health care debate with actionable suggestions. Just over a year ago, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was passed, signaling a strong and uncommon bipartisan agreement to shift toward value-based care. However, many of the specifics of how this would be done were unclear until recently. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies (CMS) published around 1,000 pages last week that provided additional information.