Implementing MACRA
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act repealed the sustainable growth rate formula and replaced it with the Quality Payment Program, which is designed to move providers into value-based care through two pathways, the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). AMGA recommends that the MIPs not include a low-volume threshold, which excludes otherwise eligible clinicians from the program and results in insignificant payment adjustments for high performers. AMGA also recommends that thresholds requirements for APMs be revised so that providers can participate.
Issue Brief
CMS Correspondence
- AMGA Comments on 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
- September 27, 2019
- AMGA Coalition Letter Urging CMS to Distribute the 5% Advanced Alternative Payment Model Bonus for Performance Year 2017
September 17, 2019 - AMGA Value Measure Recommendations to CMS
June 25, 2018 - AMGA Coalition Letter to Count Medicare Advantage toward Advanced APM Status in 2019
May 31, 2017 - AMGA’s Response to CMS’s Request for Responses to Its Episode-Based Cost Measurement Development White Paper
April 24, 2017 - AMGA Comments on CMS Medicaid APM RFI
March 24, 2017 - AMGA Comments on MACRA Final Rule
December 19, 2016 - AMGA Comments on the Processes for Reviewing and Evaluating Proposed Physician-Focused Payment Models
December 02, 2016 - MACRA Final Rule (CMS-5517-FC)
November 04, 2016 - AMGA Comments on CY 2018 MACRA Proposed Rule
August 21, 2016 - AMGA Comments on MACRA Proposed Rule
June 27, 2016 - AMGA Comments on Quality Measurement Development Plan
March 01, 2016 - AMGA Comments on MACRA Request for Information
November 17, 2015