tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 23

DME: Choose PQRI Measures You Know You Can Keep Up On

Why oncologists might have an advantage.There are two ways to choose which Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) measures to report on, say practices:Strategy #1: Pick manageable measures: "The 80-percent rule means that we should pick the patients with the diseases we see the least, so we can monitor all the patients to make sure we hit that target," suggests Barbara McAneny, a physician with New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants in Albuquerque.Strategy #2: Pick common measures: "We chose three measures that we see almost every day," says Vanessa Luther, a coder with Racine Emergency Physicians. She's...

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