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Add easy money to your bottom line with PQRI

Published on Tue Jan 05, 2010

2 new anesthesia clusters focus on services your MD handles every day. If your physician participates in the physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) program, you have some new codes to include with your measures. If your physician doesn't currently participate in PQRI, experts say 2010 could be a great time to start because tracking measures just got easier -- and will easily add 2 percent to your bottom line. "It's rare that we can say CMS has made something simpler," Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, owner of MP Consulting in Springfield, Vt., wrote in her e-newsletter Coding Field Notes. "But one piece of good news in the Physician Final Rule is reporting PQRI using a measures group instead of individual measures." What it means: Nicoletti explains that in 2009, you had to report on 30 consecutive patients to be eligible for the bonus when one of the group measures applied to your [...]
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