AHA issues tool to help hospitals prepare for new physician payment system

Oct 11, 2016 - 03:50 PM

The AHA today released a tool to help hospitals and their clinician partners prepare for the proposed Jan. 1 start of the Quality Payment Program, created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. This is especially important given the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 recent  about new reporting flexibility for 2017, which lacked specific details. 鈥淭his tool will help hospitals evaluate where to invest time and resources in preparing for the program by identifying the areas where we can predict with some certainty what the final program will look like, the areas where we expect some changes in the final rule (鈥減roceed with caution鈥) and the areas where we expect to see major changes,鈥 writes Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president for public policy analysis and development, in an AHA Stat . Over the next few weeks, AHA will roll out additional tools to assist with MACRA implementation and education, including an educational video series. To access the MACRA Tracker tool, visit www.aha.org/MACRA.

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