tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 40

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Don't Rush Ahead With Quality Reporting Program

You won't receive any extra money for reporting new "G" codes, warns AMAThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants you to start reporting on 36 quality measures next year, using new "G" codes. But the program will be an administrative pain, and you won't receive any more reimbursement for taking part voluntarily, the American Medical Association complains. The CMS program uses measures developed by doctors and quality experts, including the National Quality Forum and RAND Corp. But the AMA criticized the program in a letter to CMS for side-stepping the work that physicians were doing with the federal...

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