The MACRA rule: Not what Congress ordered

Health Policy
June 21, 2016

I joined physicians nationwide last year in cheering when Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). Not only did it eliminate the congressional budgetary fiction known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, it also promised to simplify and improve Medicare’s costly and complex programs that purport to measure the quality of care we provide to our patients.

Unfortunately, as we review the draft implementing rule, …

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The MACRA rule: Not what Congress ordered

A surgeon gets infected with West Nile virus and tells his story

Conditions and Diseases
September 10, 2012

Adapted from an interview from Me and My Doctor.

I will never be normal like I was before I got sick. I couldn’t run if it was an emergency. I cannot ride a bicycle, although I can sort of halfway dance with my wife. I can’t carry my grandchildren up the stairs.

I am never sick. I was a perfectly healthy surgeon, working 88.7 hours a week on average. …

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A surgeon gets infected with West Nile virus and tells his story