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Deadline Approaching for Reporting Medicare Quality Measures
Psychiatrists have until December 31 to begin participating in Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) if they want to avoid a future penalty on their Medicare reimbursements. The PQRS, established in 2006, is a major component of the government's effort to shift Medicare from a system that pays a standard fee for every CPT-coded service to one that incorporates quality-of-care measures, which is sometimes referred to as pay-for-performance. Clinicians only have to report one quality measure (out of the 259 that have established) for one Medicare patient by the end...
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Published By: Psychiatric News - 2 days ago
