CMS awards $100 million to help small practices with Quality Payment Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today awarded 11 organizations about $20 million each to help individual and small group practices implement the clinician Quality Payment Program. The organizations will help eligible practices of 15 or fewer clinicians choose and report on quality measures and provide guidance with all aspects of the program, including change management, strategic planning and health information technology, CMS said. The agency intends to invest another $80 million in the training over five years, as authorized by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. The first-year awards went to: Altarum; Georgia Medical Foundation; HealthCentric; Health Services Advisory Group; IPRO; Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement; QSource; Qualis; Quality Insights (West Virginia Medical Institute); Telligen; and TMF Health Quality Institute.