Comments on: MACRA and the New Quality Payment Program: Most Frequently Asked Questions https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/10/30/macra-and-the-new-quality-payment-program-most-frequently-asked-questions/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Tue, 01 Nov 2016 02:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: pjnelson https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/10/30/macra-and-the-new-quality-payment-program-most-frequently-asked-questions/#comment-857457 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 02:19:23 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=88819#comment-857457 The CMS/Congress folks need to give-up their ancient and undying devotion to the uniform actuarial basis for the funding of all E & M services. As a result they should have each citizen pick a Primary Physician for reimbursable routine checkup visits, offered in combination with a regularly scheduled care-plan supervision component. Then there would be a real world validity to the patient assignment issue, upon which the current MACRA mess all falls apart. Maybe Congress is to cheap to get it right by not wanting to spend on the process to identify the physician functioning as a person’s Primary Physician. Remember, that the long-term value of a Primary Physician’s role is to manage the level of uncertainty underlying each person’s HEALTH (see this week’s NEJM) through augmented accessibility!

]]> By: BobbyGvegas https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/10/30/macra-and-the-new-quality-payment-program-most-frequently-asked-questions/#comment-857453 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:22:43 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=88819#comment-857453 In reply to John Irvine.

“MACRA is a total disaster. We’re gonna repeal and replace it with something GREAT. Bah-leeeve me, folks.”

]]> By: John Irvine https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/10/30/macra-and-the-new-quality-payment-program-most-frequently-asked-questions/#comment-857441 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 21:18:03 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=88819#comment-857441 via e-mail:

The Good Doctor writes

Do we have any indication what a President Trump would do with MACRA?

]]> By: John Irvine https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/10/30/macra-and-the-new-quality-payment-program-most-frequently-asked-questions/#comment-857439 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 14:56:19 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=88819#comment-857439 As part of our collaboration with Health Catalyst, THCB will be be collecting and publishing your questions about MACRA, value-based care and the MACRA Final Rule in the weeks to come. If you run your own practice or are involved on the business side of a health care organization making the transition to value-based care. We highly, highly encourage you to tune in to this week’s Health Catalyst webinar for a discussion of the advanced concepts involved. Note: this is not an introductory level session.

We’ll also be publishing your theories, ideas and research about MACRA and Value-Based Care as part of the ongoing THCB Town Hall. You can send your posts to john at the healthcareblog.com

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