I have been working on ours today to get prepared. Probably will pick the latest possible reporting period(Oct.2 thru Dec 31) as who knows if the current requirements will still be the requirements by then.
However as a small, independent practice it appears that the test program you laid out is extremely easy, the Participate program is also not bad and should easily be attainable. If you have been doing PQRS and Meaningful Use, you've been doing it already.
My plan is to do the Report plan as a goal and at the very least Participate. My question however is will AC be upgraded to allow for this reporting rather than trying to make piecemeal out of the former Meaningful Use reporting options.
I saw in the link there will be something new within version 10, but it does not say exactly what that will entail. It also says there is additional cost, as a Guardian Support subscriber will the upgrade to version 10 be included, I believe upgrades were included when we signed up for the support package.