tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 28

PQRI: Strategy--Communicate With Partners To Make Sure You're On The Same Page

Your business partners could sabotage your PQRI ramp-up.You may be all primed to go with the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), but you should double-check that everyone you're doing business with is equally ready. Some practices have found out the hard way that their clearinghouses and vendors aren't prepared.One hospital-owned physician group in Lexington, NC scrambled to do an in-service on the PQRI measures once the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized them in June. The physician group's staff approached the challenge with a positive attitude and shared the responsibility across departments, reports Carol Penninger...

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