MEDICARE ANNOUNCES MEASURE SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHYSICIAN QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE

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Mon Apr 9 20:40:59 PDT 2007


MEDICARE ANNOUNCES MEASURE SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHYSICIAN QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE 

Source: AAEM (http://www.aaem.org)
Date: April 7, 2007


The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted detailed specifications
for the 74 measures included in the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). 
PQRI establishes a financial incentive for physicians and other health practitioners to
participate in a voluntary quality reporting program.  Eligible professionals who
successfully report data for a designated set of quality measures may earn a bonus
payment, subject to a cap, of 1.5% of total allowed charges for covered Medicare
physician fee schedule services provided during the reporting period of July 1, 2007 to
December 31, 2007.

The specifications have been posted to help eligible professionals to identify measures
applicable to their practices and to prepare for submission of quality data in advance of
the July 1, 2007 start date of the program.  CMS anticipates a small number of additional
specification changes, which may expand the applicability of the measures to additional
eligible professionals.  The PQRI measures apply to services that eligible professionals
provide to Medicare beneficiaries in their offices and other settings.  

The measure specifications document and other programmatic information are available at:
http://www.cms.gov/pqri/  
Questions can be submitted through CMS's website.



Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts 
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

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