CMS to Identify Physician Leaders
April 5, 2010
Physicians and group practices able to report specific quality measures electronically in 2010 will be identified publicly by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), based on new federal law.
In implementing the latest elements of the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), CMS chose 175 quality measures. Forty-six of these are registry-only measures, 10 are for electronic reporting and 30 measures are new. As a result of recent federal legislation, CMS will publish the names of physicians and group practices that are successful in prescribing electronically and can report PQRI quality measures successfully in 2010. Providers who participate successfully in PQRI are eligible for bonus payments of two percent of total allowable charges in 2010. For more information, visit the PQRI page on www.cms.hhs.gov.