Are Independent Urology Practices Embracing Business and Clinical Integration to Prepare for the Coming Era of Value-based Payment?

In recent columns, I have discussed how independent urology is well positioned heading into the new value-based payment paradigm that the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA; the law that passed approximately 1 year ago that replaced the sustainable growth rate formula for determining Medicare payments for health care providers’ services) is ushering in for urology and the entire house of medicine. Independent, integrated urology has always embodied the spirit of value-based payments: we embrace innovation, entrepreneurship, and efficiency with a goal of lowering cost and improving quality of care for our patients.