1 Repeals the flawed Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that calculated payment cuts for physicians. 2  2016 through 2019: MACRA establishes a 0.5 percent physician fee schedule update each year.  January 2019: Based on qualification and eligibility, physicians may enter the APM track or the MIPS track.
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation. An accent may identify the locality in which its speakers reside, the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language, and so on.
Not to be confused with accent (sociolinguistics). In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.