New law opens HHS data trove

Healthcare IT News: A year from now, physicians who treat Medicare beneficiaries may have vastly expanded resources to help them prepare for a new payment structure defined by quality and efficiency measures and practice improvement activities.

The Medicare Data Sharing Program, enacted in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act, could be significantly enlarged under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which was signed into law April 16.

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