Small practices receive $20 million from the CMS to help with MACRA

The CMS on Friday said it would give 11 community-based organizations about $20 million to help small practices prepare for changes in the way Medicare pays physicians.

The money is for the first year of a five-year program. The CMS said it plans to invest as much as $80 million more over the following four years to help clinicians with the Quality Payment Program under the 2015 Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act, or MACRA...