White Paper on MACRA: Past, Present and Future

Physicians should be proactive, and lead the effort to improve medical quality and control health care related costs, the primary goals of MACRA. Academic and community urologists should collaborate and define optimal quality measures that are meaningful and relevant to the practice of urology, which is currently being done by the AUA (American Urological Association) Quality Registry program. The specialty of urology would benefit from a concerted effort to develop bundled payment models for a variety of urological procedures and seek CMS recognition as qualifying for Advanced Alternative Payment Models.