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The provisions in this bill that would pay for changes in the SGR formula by delaying some provisions of the Affordable Care Act were unpopular with Democrats, leading to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (H.R. 4302; 113th Congress), a bill that would simply delay the April 1, 2014 SGR Medicare cuts until March 2015.
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 or IMPACT Act of 2014 is a bill that is intended to change and improve Medicare's post-acute care (PAC) services and how they are reported. [1] The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.
The Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was a method used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States to control spending by Medicare on physician services. [1] President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on April 16, 2015, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which ended use of the SGR ...
The Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (H.R. 4302; Pub. L. 113–93 (text)) is a law that delayed until March 2015 a pending cut to Medicare physician payment, a cut that had been regularly delayed for over a decade. [1] [2] Because the law only delayed and did not repeal the physician payment cut, it was a source of controversy. [2] [3]
The Demonstration is a prime example of the shared savings model of payment reform [3] and represents Medicare's first physician Pay-for-Performance initiative. [4] The three main goals of the PGP Demonstration are: To encourage physician participation in Parts A & B of the Medicare Program; To promote cost efficiency and quality of care; and
Increasing Medicaid payment rates to primary care doctors to match Medicare payment rates, which are higher, in 2013 and 2014. [21] Having the federal government pay all costs of expanding Medicaid under the reform until 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter.
First, the good news: According to a report released by the White House on Monday, America's new health reform law will generate $575 billion in Medicare cost savings over the next decade ...
There were a number of different health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration.Key reforms address cost and coverage and include obesity, prevention and treatment of chronic conditions, defensive medicine or tort reform, incentives that reward more care instead of better care, redundant payment systems, tax policy, rationing, a shortage of doctors and nurses, intervention vs ...