At a very high level, MACRA: 1  Repeals the flawed Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that calculated payment cuts for physicians; 2  Creates a new framework for rewarding physicians for providing higher quality care by establishing two tracks for payment: Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and.
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Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the system of which it is a part.f so, then functionalism can stand as a materialistic alternative to the Psycho-Physical Identity Thesis (introduced in Place 1956, Feigl 1958, and Smart 1959, and defended more recently in Hill 1991, and Polger 2011), which holds that each type of mental state is identical with a particular type of neural state.