tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 18

INDUSTRY NOTES: Your Quality Data Could Lead To Comparison Shopping

Plus:  Concerns intensify regarding PCP shortage.Watch out: The quality data you provide to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) could soon end up in the hands of beneficiaries. Medicare patients could soon be using PQRI data to comparison-shop for doctors' offices based on quality, according to Michael Beebe, director of CPT editorial services for the American Medical Association. "Down the line, there's going to be interest on the part of CMS in providing this data to beneficiaries, as they did with hospitals," Beebe told the American Association for...

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