Category: Health Care
Breaking Down the Acronyms to Understand MACRA
By John Marren and Tom Babbo. Edited by Mary Grace Babbo. In a political climate where government initiatives for healthcare are constantly created and revised, it can be difficult and tedious to keep the acronyms and program-specific language straight – even for the physicians whose professions and patients are affected […]
Is Clinical Integration a Better Prescription than Shared Savings?
By John Marren and Tom Babbo. Edited by Mary Grace Babbo Despite the best efforts of accountable care organizations (ACOs) within the Medicare program and the use of shared savings models among private payers to realign the otherwise perverse incentives of the fee-for-service health care payment system, costs to […]