PQRI: CMS Proposes Making PQRI Reporting Easier in 2011
Plus: CMS reveals common errors from previous PQRI quarters.
Collecting your PQRI bonus could get quite a bit easier next year. That's the word from a July 20 CMS-sponsored PQRI national provider call, where Medicare analysts indicated that CMS is proposing to revise the claims-based reporting criteria so that you'll have to report at least three PQRI measures (or 1 to 2 measures if fewer than 3 apply) for at least 50 percent of applicable Part B patients seen during the reporting period. That's down from the 80 percent threshold that's currently in place.
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