Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
Long title	An Act 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
Acronyms (colloquial)	MACRA
Nicknames	Permanent Doc Fix
Enacted by	the 114th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 114–10 (text) (PDF)
Codification
Acts amended	Social Security Act; Balanced Budget Act of 1997
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 2 by Michael C. Burgess (R-TX) on March 24, 2015; Passed the House on March 26, 2015 (392–37); Passed the Senate on April 14, 2015 (92–8); Signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 16, 2015;

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (H.R. 2, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 114–10 (text) (PDF)) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, is a United States statute. Revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Bipartisan Act was the largest scale change to the American health care system following the Affordable Care Act in 2010.^[1]

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[1] Zelman, William N. (2020). Financial management of health care organizations : an introduction to fundamental tools, concepts and applications. Michael J. McCue, Noah D. Glick, Marci S. Thomas (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-119-55384-7. OCLC 1128885979.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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