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Quality Payment Program, Year 2
In January, physicians and other eligible clinicians began their second year of Medicare’s Quality Payment Program, established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
Rural ACO Builds on Quality Programs
Trustee Magazine Articles
After years of preparation, nine rural hospitals and physician groups form an accountable care organization to focus on prevention.
The key to new payment programs? Data management.
Value-based payment approaches, including Medicare’s Quality Payment Program for physicians and other eligible clinicians, tie fees and bonuses to how well providers perform on various qualit
Making Sense of the MACRA: A Primer for Trustees
Trustee Articles
This primer provides an overview of the MACRA law and includes questions to help boards, executives and clinical leaders discuss its impact on their organization.
What rural hospitals need to know about MACRA
Trustee talking points
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has rolled out a new Medicare physician payment system. The system will affect payment star
Reimbursement reform: Educating physicians
It was standing room only at a January physician education event in South Carolina as 140-plus providers in the Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative gathered from around the state’s Midlands regio
Recruiting rural executives
Rural hospitals and health systems often face a leadership Catch-22: They need strong leaders to overcome the well-documented challenges facing rural health care — limited resources and dwind
The Engine that Powers Population Health
When physicians, executives and trustees look at the pros and cons of assigning a patient's total cost of care to a physician, they can't get bogged down in philosophical arguments over fairness or
The Ins and Outs of Physician Payment After Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Reform
On April 16, President Barack Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015