tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 14

QUALITY REPORTING: It's Not Too Early To Start Figuring Out How To Capture Quality Data

Improve communication between clinical and admin sides -- or lose out.While your physicians are noting whether or not they provided aspirin to patients as suggested by quality guidelines, you might want to save some aspirin for yourself. Medicare's quality reporting project is likely to give you a major headache as you struggle to understand its complexities in time for the July 1 start date. "This program is going to be arcane and difficult to implement," says Barbara McAneny, a physician with New Mexico Oncology in Albuquerque. But with reimbursement cuts, her practice can't afford to pass up...

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