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.
Personhood is the status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty. According to law, only a natural person or legal personality has rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and legal liability.
a moral philosophy based upon the belief that a technological singularity-the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence-is possible, advocating deliberate action to effect and ensure its safety.his view should be distinguished from moral realism, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and nihilism; proponents of these views avow that moral statements are either true or false. the absence of belief in both the existence and non-existence of a deity (or deities, or other numinous phenomena).