MACRA doesn’t have to be scary, confusing or even difficult to succeed in. In fact, MACRA is a great opportunity to improve your reimbursement.

Since we are in “repeal and replace” mode, let’s do the same with the two-midnight rule and let physicians go back to worrying about the right thing to do for the patient.

Is health care at, or at least near, a tipping point where volume is truly being dethroned by value as organizations move toward taking full risk?

The uncertainty around EPMs can be maddening for hospitals and physicians, since many of these recent CMS policy decisions have already started, or are starting in 2017, and there are risks to assuming they will disappear.

With all the uncertainty in health care, it’s time to call out the necessity for two areas that should be “reformed” as part of what appears to be a significant reengineering of health care: current Stark legislation and Tort reform.

On January 20, 2017 the Trump administration issued a memorandum to all federal agencies ordering, among other things, the temporary postponement of the effective dates of all recently published regulations that, as of January 20, 2017, had not become effective. The memorandum postpones the effective dates for such regulations for a period of 60 days from the date of the memorandum, January 20, 2017.