In a recent blog post, Sheridan Healthcare discusses the American Medical Association’s new tools to make the MACRA transition easier for physicians.
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Sheridan Healthcare’s website.
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently unveiled new tools and resources to support physicians through the daunting process of transitioning to CMS’s new Quality Payment Plan (QPP) under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). These resources include the AMA Payment Model Evaluator, the addition of six new MACRA-specific modules to the AMA STEPS Forward™ collection of practice improvement strategies, and a new ReachMD podcast series titled Inside Medicare’s New Payment System. The AMA developed these new tools to help physicians navigate and prepare for the impending changes to Medicare payment and delivery and to improve their opportunities to succeed when MACRA and the QPP go into effect in 2017.
The AMA Payment Model Evaluator, an online assessment tool to help physicians determine MACRA’s likely impact on their practices, is essentially an interactive decision tree. The physician or medical practice administrator completes a 10-minute questionnaire to provide information about the physician, the practice’s financial structure and its reporting structures. Based on those answers, the tool provides a brief initial assessment of which QPP option might be best, as well as relevant educational and actionable resources. Click here to continue >>