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 person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and consequently what makes a person count as a person differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there ar