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AAPS Submits Comments on MACRA Final Rule

Re: Comments on Final rule with comment period, Docket No. CMS-5517-FC, RIN 0938-AS69, Medicare Program; Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Criteria for Physician-Focused […]

MACRA (“Doc Fix”) Rule Can’t Be Fixed

To great applause from the American Medical Association (AMA), Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), almost unanimously. It was hailed as the repeal of the notorious Clinton-Gingrich sustained growth […]

Doctors May Do a “Brexit” from Medicare

American physicians have already been declaring independence from Medicare, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), but the imposition of new payment methods may lead to a rush to imitate the British in exiting the regime of a remote, unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy.

MIPS, APMs Will Harm Patient Care, AAPS Warns CMS

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Attention CMS-3321-NC PO Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244 November 16, 2015 To whom it may concern, The undersigned physician organizations write to comment on the Request for Information regarding […]

King v. Burwell: The Fix Was Definitely In

By Richard Amerling, M.D. As I predicted back in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the administration in King v. Burwell. So I was not surprised by the decision, but that doesn’t mean I […]

Measuring Physicians—and Changing Them

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Parents are rebelling against Common Core and other standardized tests of their children, which are turning education into a teach-for-the-test treadmill (or else lose […]