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Introduced:
Mar 24, 2015 114th Congress, 2015–2017
Status:
Enacted — Signed by the President
on Apr 16, 2015
This bill was enacted after being signed by the President on April 16, 2015.
Representative for Texas's 26th congressional district
Republican
Text:
Read Text » Last Updated: Apr 16, 2015
Length: 95 pages
About the bill
Full Title
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and strengthen Medicare access by improving physician payments and making other improvements, to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
Summary
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (H.R. 2, Pub.L. 114–10) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, establishes a new way to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The reform is the largest in scale on the American health care system since the Affordable Care Act in 2010 ...
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