tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 22

PQRI: Your Business Partners Could Sabotage Your PQRI Ramp-Up

Strategy: Communicate with partners to make sure you're on the same pageYou 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 finalized them in June. The physician group's staff approached the challenge with a positive attitude and shared the responsibility across departments, reports...

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