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Wondering Why Your PQRS Payment Is Low? Look at Sequestration

Published on Tue Oct 14, 2014

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally released the 2013 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) incentive payments, and if the number is lower than you expected, you can look to the sequestration pay cuts for the answer. “As required by law, President Obama issued a sequestration order on March 1, 2013,” CMS said in a Sept. 26 [...]
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