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Medicare Pay-for-Report Program: Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Resources for 2008

Still Time to Earn a Medicare Bonus for Reporting Quality Information in 2008

While it is late in 2008, you still have time to report quality information that will enable you to earn a Medicare bonus for this year. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made reporting options available on July 1 that enable you to qualify for a bonus for reporting on a relatively small number of your patients. You can report the quality measures in a measures group for 15 consecutive Medicare beneficiaries with a common condition such as diabetes. You also can report on consecutive patients for which you submit data to a registry that maintains your information electronically and then submits the needed quality information to Medicare. CMS has identified registries that are eligible to report quality information on behalf of physicians to receive PQRI reporting credit.

View an ACP slide presentation outlining the 2008 reporting options, highlighting those that became available July 1.

Additional details on the PQRI program and the options for 2008 are listed below in the "Preparing Your Practice for PQRI" section.

Tools to help you take advantage of the options for reporting in the last half of 2008 are below in the "Participating in PQRI" section.

Preparing Your Practice for PQRI

• Earn a Bonus by Reporting Diabetes Measures Group

• New Medicare 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative Reporting Options Available Beginning July 1

• Medicare 2008 Pay-for-Reporting Program Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (General, Detailed Description)

• Medicare 2008 Pay-for-Reporting Program The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) - Differences Compared to 2007 PQRI

• Tips on Reporting Measures that Involve Test Results and Prescriptions

Participating in PQRI

• ACP PQRI Coding Tool Template

• ACP PQRI Coding Tool Template – Diabetes Measures Group

• Access to Physicians’ Informational Education Resource (PIER) Clinical Content for PQRI Quality Measures

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) PQRI Information

• CMS’s extensive PQRI resource page

Communicate with ACP and Colleagues

• E-mail ACP staff your questions and/or comments on your Medicare PQRI experience to pqri@acponline.org

• Communicate with Colleagues about PQRI Using the Small Practice Discussion Group

Other Relevant ACP Resources

• Access survey results for CMS Qualified Registries for PQRI

• Access the ACP Diabetes Portal with Physician Tools and Resources for Managing Diabetes

• Information about registries that have been qualified by CMS for the PQRI program can be found in the Running a Practice section - or use the registry selector/comparison tool

• Access the ACP EHR Roadmap Containing Tools for Each Stage of Electronic Health Record Adoption

Archive of ACP 2007 PQRI Resources

• View the resources from 2007

Page updated: 12/8/08

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