Modern Healthcare October 5, 2016
Virgil Dickson

The American Medical Association has created a series of online tools to help doctors determine how to best comply with the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act.

“MACRA represents the most significant change to Medicare’s physician payment system in a generation, and the AMA is working to help physicians navigate this change and make sure they are prepared for it,” Dr. Andrew Gurman said.

The new resources unveiled Wednesday include the AMA payment model evaluator, which involves doctors or their staff assessing their type of practices. The online questionnaire directs them to the best MACRA payment model.

Under MACRA, providers will use either the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, known as MIPS, or an alternative payment model.

Since CMS has released...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Congress / White House, Health System / Hospital, MACRA, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Regulations, Value Based
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