DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 7 (July)

CMS wants minimum patient requirements to earn PQRI bonus

You and your peers would be required to report quality measures for a set minimum number of patients in order to receive a 2% payment bonus under the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program in 2010, according to CMS's proposed 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The agency is planning several other new wrinkles to the voluntary program, including reducing or removing claims-based reporting after 2010 and using electronic health record (EHR) systems to report quality measures.

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