Family physicians who are participating in an Advanced Alternative Payment Model (AAPM) payment track that evolved from MACRA in 2017, can use a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) tool to check on their status as a qualifying participant.
CMS unveiled the interactive look-up tool on October 4 and invited 2017 AAPM participants to use it to see the results of the first qualifying participant “snapshot.” Physicians should have their 10-digit national provider identifier (NPI) handy to access the tool.
This initial look-see is based on calculations from claims with dates of service between January 1 and March 31, 2017; about 75,000 NPIs are included in the first qualifying participant analysis.
CMS said it will soon update the tool with calculations from claims with dates of service through June 30, 2017.
More information regarding the recently released tool is available online.