title: MACRA: Easing the Pain?
abstract: Medicare's final MACRA regulations acquiesce to medicine's call for more flexibility for small practices in the first year but moves full speed ahead with the transition to value-based payment.
authors.forename: Amy Lynn
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sorrel
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States