Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
Great Seal of the United States
Long title An Act To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and strengthen Medicare access by improving physician payments and making other improvements, to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes
Nicknames Permanent Doc Fix
Enacted by the 114th United States Congress
Citations
Public law Pub.L. 114–10
Codification
Acts amended Social Security Act, Balanced Budget Act of 1997
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 2 by Michael C. Burgess (R-TX) on March 24, 2015
  • Passed the House on March 26, 2015 (392–37)
  • Passed the Senate on April 14, 2015 (92–8)
  • Signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 16, 2015

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (H.R. 2, Pub.L. 114–10) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, establishes a new way to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The reform is the largest in scale on the American health care system since the Affordable Care Act in 2010. It fixes the way Medicare doctors are reimbursed, fills in a funding gap and extends a popular children’s insurance program, CHIP.[1]

There MACRA related regulations also address incentives for use of health IT by physicians.

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References

  1. ↑ "Obama signs largest healthcare bill since Obamacare into law". RT. RT. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
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