tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2015 Issue 2

PQRS 2015 Medicare Final Rule: Quality Provisions Highlights: Say Goodbye To PQRS Incentives

The penalties are getting bigger and some familiar performance measures may disappear CMS has finalized new requirements for the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)incentive and the 2017 payment adjustments, as well as the PQRS measures themselves. To make sure you’re up to date on how to comply, read on. The big picture: The gradual shift from pay for reporting and pay for performance has reached the state where there are no longer incentive payments, only penalties for failure to satisfy the reporting requirements. No Carrot, Just An Increasingly Larger Stick In the 2015 rule, the incentives for...

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