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The History of Healthcare Compliance

MedTrainer

Affordable Care Act (2010): The ACA introduced the concept of value-based care, emphasizing quality and patient outcomes over quantity of services. MACRA (2015): The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) introduced the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs).

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. The costs for EHR and other technology acquisition and maintenance are too costly for smaller hospitals, and pressures of decreased payment rates are increasing on the provider side. Younger physicians prefer associations with larger enterprises.

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

Every time you reduce payment to a drugmaker or a hospital or any other health care provider, that’s a cut, but it helps beneficiaries. And, you know, the ACA, or Obamacare, actually made a lot of headway in covering big swaths of the uninsured population. ” Not necessarily. Baicker: That’s right.