April 15, 2016
By: Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Jim Macrae, Acting Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration
Last year, an overwhelmingly bipartisan Congressional majority – with the support of the medical community and stakeholders – passed the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA. The law ended more than a decade of last-minute fixes and 17 potential payment “cliffs” for thousands of Medicare fee-for-service clinicians, while making numerous other improvements to the health care system. Over the past year, we have followed the law’s model of partnership and progress as we implement policies to improve the health and well-being of Americans.
Expanding Access to Health Care
In the year since its passage, MACRA has changed people’s lives for the better by making health care more accessible. MACRA continued coverage for over 8 million children by extending funding for CHIP, a program that helped cut the uninsured rate among children by nearly 60 percent since its start in 1997. The law also continued the proven Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program to help 115,000 parents and children, so these young people could be physically, socially and emotionally healthy.
For low-income families, MACRA helps them stay covered by making certain programs permanent. One program helps millions of low-income seniors and people with disabilities enrolled in Medicare Part B and Part D afford their premiums. Another helps low-income people continue their Medicaid coverage as they transition to employment.
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