tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 7

Quality Reporting: Ignore PQRS at Your Peril - Penalties Await

Get ready for VBPM, too.  If you haven’t sorted through the quality-measure alphabet soup — PQRS, VBPM, QRUR — your general surgery group could lose big pay in the coming years. That’s because the bonuses turn to penalties the longer you don’t participate. Check out the following “look back” and “look ahead” to see where your practice stands, and what you can do to prepare for the coming “pay-for-performance” world. PQRS — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) began as a totally voluntary initiative in 2007 to &ldquo...

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