MACRA AND PAYMENT REFORM: PAYING FOR VALUE.

On April 16, 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) that ended the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) and the chronically threatened 20-25 percent Medicare payment cuts to physicians. Despite Congress' reputation for gridlock and dysfunction, there was overwhelming bipartisan support for MACRA's payment and delivery system reform that will permanently alter the way physicians will be paid in the future.