tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 21

PQRI: Get Extra Credit For Tracking Patients' Hemoglobin A1C More Often

Your last-minute PQRI questions answeredAs practices ramped up to take part in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), providers were puzzling over some last-minute questions. We asked our Insider experts to untangle them for you.Question: The diabetes measures say you should report them once a year, but my physician tests my patient's hemoglobin A1C more frequently. Should we report these results more often?Answer: You can report the diabetes measures a minimum of once per year, but you can also report them more often, says Dianne Wilkinson, compliance officer and quality manager with MedSouth Healthcare in Dyersburg, TN...

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