How to Be an Advocate for Your Profession and Your Practice

Our profession continues to be in the midst of significant transformation, which began with the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, and the Medicare Access and Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, and continues with the current attempts to repeal and replace the ACA. Passed with strong bipartisan support, MACRA introduced a new system of rules and regulations for Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement, and with it an expanding lexicon of acronyms (ie, MACRA, electronic health records [EHR], value-based modifier [VBP], meaningful use [MU], Quality Payment Program [QPP], Sustainable Growth Rate [SGR] formula, Advancing Care Information [ACI], certified EHR technology [CEHRT]).

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