Improving payment for the cognitive services family physicians provide undoubtedly is the
most crucial and challenging issue the AAFP must resolve. The payment disparity between …

For 39 days over the fall of 2015, a team of AAFP staffers and selected family physician
members toiled in unison to construct comprehensive feedback in response to a request for …

As the largest change in Medicare physician payment since the Sustainable Growth Rate
formula, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) will affect up to …

Medicare payment to physicians is an important matter of public policy. Many persons,
myself included, have been calling for reform for years. Reform may or may not be near, but …

Now that Congress has completed the epochal, exhausting, and contentious task of
enacting comprehensive health care reform, it must confront another health care issue that is …

At the NAPCRG meeting in 2010 there was some discussion that perhaps the first part of the
acronym, North American, was too restrictive. Hallway conversations in foreign languages …

Even as the US health care system progresses towards increasing adoption of alternative
payment models such as Accountable Care Organizations, traditional fee-for-service (FFS) …

Abstract The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) introduces
incentives for clinicians serving Medicare patients to move away from traditional “fee-for …

A combination of escalating costs of health care and an aging population with increased
longevity and complexity is changing the environment of the patient office visit and how …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted Medicare severity
diagnosis-related groups (MS-DRGs), reshaping the payment landscape for providers …