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A Look at MACRA: What to Expect in 2017. 2017

Janet Silversmith

The Medicare Access and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2015 fundamentally changes how physicians who care for Medicare patients will be paid. Although physicians won't see changes in their payments in 2017, they need to understand that their performance in 2017 will be the basis for the payments made to them starting in 2019. This article summarizes the two paths for determining future Medicare payments established by the law: the merit-based incentive payment system and advanced alternative payment models.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008910	Minnesota	State bordered on the north by Canada, on the east by Lake Superior and Wisconsin, on the south by Iowa, and on the west by North Dakota and South Dakota.
D010816	Physician Incentive Plans	Compensatory plans designed to motivate physicians in relation to patient referral, physician recruitment, and efficient use of the health facility.	Incentive Plans, Physician,Incentive Plan, Physician,Physician Incentive Plan,Plan, Physician Incentive,Plans, Physician Incentive
D012051	Reimbursement Mechanisms	Processes or methods of reimbursement for services rendered or equipment.	Mechanism, Reimbursement,Mechanisms, Reimbursement,Reimbursement Mechanism
D005544	Forecasting	The prediction or projection of the nature of future problems or existing conditions based upon the extrapolation or interpretation of existing scientific data or by the application of scientific methodology.	Futurology,Projections and Predictions,Future,Predictions and Projections
D006278	Medicare	Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XVIII-Health Insurance for the Aged, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, that provides health insurance benefits to persons over the age of 65 and others eligible for Social Security benefits. It consists of two separate but coordinated programs: hospital insurance (MEDICARE PART A) and supplementary medical insurance (MEDICARE PART B). (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed and A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, US House of Representatives, 1976)	Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled, Title 18,Insurance, Health, for Aged and Disabled,Health Insurance for Aged, Disabled, Title 18,Health Insurance for Aged, Title 18
D000072641	Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015	An Act that amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate, that strengthens Medicare access by improving physician payments, and that reauthorizes the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).	PL 114-10,Public Law 114-10,114-10, PL,114-10s, PL,PL 114 10,Public Law 114 10
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D015284	Physician Payment Review Commission	A commission created by the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, enacted in 1986, and given the mandate to advise Congress on Medicare-physician payment. The commission members are appointed by the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment.	Physician Payment Review Commission (U.S.),Physician Payment Review Commissions,United States Physician Payment Review Commission