Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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CMS Confirms Incentives, Offers Guidance on PQRI

Plus: CMS offers two reporting periods for PQRI participation. Want to collect your maximum physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI) bonus this year? CMS just made things a little bit easier. During a Jan. 13 CMS Open Door Forum, Medicare officials outlined the process that you'll have to follow if you want to collect your bonus this year. Following are a few highlights of the call: More measures: While Medicare offered 119 PQRI measures in 2008, you'll find 153 measures this year. Plus, CMS removed e-prescribing as one of the measures because it now comprises a separate incentive program, said CMS' Dan Green, MD, on the call. Reporting periods: CMS will allow two reporting periods this year. The first period runs from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2009. The second reporting period (also known as the 6-month reporting period) goes from July 1 through Dec. 31. The full-year option "includes all options of reporting: individual measures by claims [...]
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