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Macra And Rural Hospitals, Erica Kelley, Rhea Lipscomb, Jennifer Valdez, Nitesh Patil, Alberto Coustasse Dr.Ph, Md, Mba

Alberto Coustasse, DrPH, MD, MBA, MPH

Introduction: Every year, the cost of healthcare within the United States has continued to increase while the quality of patient care has decreased. To reconstruct the delivery of care, Congress has introduced the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 which has reinvented Medicare physician reimbursement systems. The purpose of this research was to study the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act and its implementation to determine how it would financially impact rural hospitals.

Methodology: The methodology for this study consisted of a qualitative literature review. Twenty-seven research publications were utilized throughout the study. Data limited to the English …