Option #2: Medicare Access and Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA): New Incentive-Based Physician Pay Program

Review the information in the textbook for this module; additionally, review the following online article addressing MACRA: New incentive-based physician pay program (Links to an external site.). Create an infographic that addresses the following questions about this recent policy modification:

• What is the focus of the overall focus of this policy?
• Who would receive the greatest benefit from this policy and why?
• What are possible negative aspects of this policy?
• What research figured into the rationale of this policy?

For this assignment, it is important to note that the infographic does not require APA in-text citations, but a reference list should be included separately, which provides citation information for the information that is presented. Your reference list should conform to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.).

If you are not familiar with the process of creating an infographic, there are free programs available online. Please review the tutorials for these programs: Infogr.am (Links to an external site.) and Piktochart (Links to an external site.) (e.g., please refer to the handout).