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Develop a System to Deliver the Best Bang for Your PQRI Buck

Published on Mon Mar 23, 2009

A coder shares lessons learned from the first two years. If you really want that 2 percent bonus for taking part in Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, your whole office must buy in to the effort, and you need a plan to boost your chances to earn that extra money, our experts say. There's no secret formula to winning the PQRI sweepstakes, says Tracy Helget, CPC, of Medical Associates of Manhattan in Manhattan, Kan., "but you need to develop a system that all providers and nurses can follow." Helget's office has been taking part in PQRI since its inception in 2007. Helget is using lessons learned from her first year's PQRI reports to develop a system she hopes will enable all of her 17 providers (including a gastroenterologist) to qualify for the bonus in 2009. Remember: To qualify for the PQRI bonus, your provider must report on 80 percent of [...]
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