The Obama administration is taking another step in its goal ofreforming how doctors arecompensated by Medicare.
On Wednesday the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)put forth a proposed rule to implement new outcome-based paymentsystems that were authorized by the Medicare Access and CHIPReauthorization Act of 2015.
While there are already a number of ways that Medicare assesses the value ofcare provided by doctors, hospitals, and clinics, the greatmajority of payments are tied to services rather than outcomes.
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