Emil Engels, MD, MBA, CPC
‘Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.’—former President William Howard Taft
Congress finally repealed the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a law titled the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) after years of stopgap measures. In addition to repealing the SGR formula, MACRA continued the Centers for Medicare &