On April 16, 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) that ended the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and the chronically threatened 20-25 percent Medicare payment cuts to physicians. Despite Congress' reputation for gridlock and dysfunction, there was overwhelming bipartisan support for MACRA's payment and delivery system reform that will permanently alter the way physicians will be paid in the future.
{"title":"MACRA AND PAYMENT REFORM: PAYING FOR VALUE.","authors":"Michael Kitchell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On April 16, 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) that ended the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and the chronically threatened 20-25 percent Medicare payment cuts to physicians. Despite Congress' reputation for gridlock and dysfunction, there was overwhelming bipartisan support for MACRA's payment and delivery system reform that will permanently alter the way physicians will be paid in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 1","pages":"24-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36369524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE TO PRODUCE THE BEST PHYSICIANS.","authors":"Bret Ripley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"16-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA DOLLARS.","authors":"Marcus Lwig","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UNDERSTANDING THE IBM COMPLAINT PROCESS.","authors":"Kate Strickler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LIFTOFF FOR THE MOONSHOT INITIATIVE.","authors":"George Weiner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WE ARE AGENTS OF CHANGE.","authors":"Paul Mulhausen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IHC'S COMPASS PRACTICE TRANSFORMATION NETWORK: HELPING PHYSICIANS TRANSITION TO VALUE-BASED PAYMENT.","authors":"Tom Evans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A CLARION CALL FROM 1958.","authors":"Clare M Kelly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ADVOCATING TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE.","authors":"Dennis Tibben","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"106 3","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A CALL TO DUTY.","authors":"K John Hartman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77185,"journal":{"name":"Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society","volume":"105 2","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36369526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}