Heads up, specialty providers. The future of your practice may depend on three key components in Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing program. Especially if you work in an independent practice with a higher proportion of Medicare patients than many primary care physicians, your income and practice survival are at risk if you don’t understand implications of the […]
Final PQRS 2015 Reporting Rule: Higher Penalties and Tougher Requirements
Looking for a good bedtime read? CMS has finalized its 1200-page Medicare Physician Payment System rule for 2015. While the full version is a sure cure for insomnia, buried within are two areas worth your attention: 2015 PQRS Reporting, and Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Modifier (VBPM). Central to Medicare’s value-based health care efforts, both impose stiffer penalty […]
How to Integrate Strategic Quality Initiatives with PQRS Reporting: The QCDR Opportunity
For 2014 and beyond, CMS has created a new mechanism for PQRS reporting—the Qualified Clinical Data Registry. QCDR reporting requirements are the same as for a traditional Registry utilizing individual measures: A provider must report on at least nine measures. These measures must represent at least three National Quality and Strategy (NQS) Domains. Each of […]