tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 18

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Slow Down On Pay For Reporting/Performance, Senator Demands

CPT 2008 will lose more codes than it gainsYou could gain some breathing room on changes to the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) next year and avoid any pay-for-performance (P4P) plans, if a new bill becomes law.Sens. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) introduced The Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act, which would require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to spend a few more years on a more careful process to develop a voluntary quality reporting program.The Cardin-Specter bill would require the HHS Secretary to report to Congress on the six-month PQRI program that starts...

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