Editor’s note: This piece was originally published at Health Affairs Blog on February 26, 2018. In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) on a strong bipartisan vote. In addition to repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that was used to set the level of physician payment rates, MACRA changed the […]
Last month, we analyzed how states and the federal budget would have fared had a Medicaid per capita cap like the one envisioned in the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) been implemented in the recent past. On June 22, the Senate released a “discussion draft” of their Affordable Care Act repeal bill: the Better […]
The American Health Care Act (AHCA), which was passed by the House of Representatives on May 4, would alter how the costs of state Medicaid programs are shared between the federal government and states. In “Effects of the Medicaid Per Capita Cap Included in the House-Passed American Health Care Act,” (PDF) Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, […]
There is room to modify the bundled payment models to address concerns raised by Secretary Price and others without damaging the integrity of the models.
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