Blog: Mark Segal, GE Healthcare - In Part 1 of this post, I provided an overview of the new Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) proposed in response to the 2015 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which sets out a path to value-based Medicare physician payment. The CMS proposed rule implementing MACRA was released April 27; comments are due June 27. In Part 2, I summarize healthcare IT (HIT) implications of the QPP and provide my initial observation on the proposed rule.