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Insurers are already seeing success, experts say, and they won't be quick to give up those savings.

Re-evaluation of CMMI possible, along with other small changes, but law is largely safe, experts say.

Huge final rule already has healthcare pros celebrating or lamenting the release.

In the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Ophthalmologist Kristin S. Held writes MACRA is not a step forward, but is "a more elaborate system of price controls."

Among those steps is the creation of a transitional reporting period for the first year, ‪beginning July 1.

Currently, doctors are paid for things such as tests, treatments and other procedures, but not necessarily for spending time with patients to learn more about their health or develop a treatment plan. Officials say the new payment program will change that.

A single, coordinated approach to performance reporting is needed to make promised Medicare payment reforms work, the American Medical Association and other physician groups are expected to tell lawmakers Tuesday morning during a Subcommittee on Health hearing on Capitol Hill.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday released final rule governing how physicians are paid, raising the total payments under the physician fee schedule by 0.5 percent and setting guidelines for its new Physician Quality Reporting Schedule.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services on Wednesday said it would delay enforcement of the controversial two-midnight rule until the beginning of 2016, a change from the September 30 extension laid out in the sustainable growth rate replacement legislation passed by Congress in July.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday proposed a new rule that would reimburse doctors for end-of-life counseling, the very kind of practice that led to the heated “death panel” debate before the Affordable Care Act was passed.