Practice and Advocacy
CMS PQRI Bonus
| Congress has established a voluntary Medicare bonus program called the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). Under the quality reporting initiative, physicians who choose to participate will help capture data about the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries, to identify the most effective ways to use the quality measures in routine practice and to support physicians in their efforts to improve quality of care. Physicians satisfactorily reporting the quality measures for the period January 1 to December 31, 2008, will receive a bonus payment equal to 1.5 percent of all allowed charges for the period.
The PQRI program started January 1st. If you are participating in the initiative, we would like to hear from you about your experience. Please email us at qualityimprovement@entnet.org to let us know how you are doing or to ask us questions. Please give us your practice name, where you are located, how many and which measures you are reporting and how we can get in touch with you. This is a great way to keep the Academy informed so that we can be better advocates for you.
2008 PQRI Otolaryngology Related Measures
2008 PQRI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The AMA convened Physicians Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) provides a number of resources for physicians who are implementing Medicare's PQRI bonus program into their practice.
The CMS PQRI website is your source for the most current information about the program. A list of all 130 primary care and specialty performance measures for January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 and specifications is currently available on the CMS website. |
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- Zupko Coding Workshop: Hilton Nashville Downtown, Nashville, TN (08/27/10)
- Michigan Ear Institute Temporal Bone Surgical Dissection Course (10/04/10)
- 44th Annual Meeting American Society of Head & Neck Radiology (10/06/10)
- Temporal Bone Surgical Dissection Course. Cleveland, OH (10/22/10)
- 46th Congress of the South African Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery In Association with the South African Association of Audiologists & Head & Neck Oncology Society. (10/24/10)
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