Doctors laud plan to increase Medicare payments to primary care physicians
Internal Medicine Physicians Applaud Proposed Rule to Improve Medicare Payments for Primary Care
(Washington, July 8, 2016) A new proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will greatly strengthen the ability of primary care physicians to provide high value, coordinated and patient-centered care to their patients enrolled in Medicare, said the American College of Physicians (ACP) today.
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Internists Offer Practical Alternatives to Simplify Implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA)
(Washington, June 27, 2016)—The American College of Physicians (ACP) offered its recommendations for improvements to the proposed rule to implement the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in a letter submitted today to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator, Andy Slavitt. If accepted by CMS, the College’s recommendations would replace an unnecessarily complex quality scoring system with a much simpler and understanda