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With so many outcome and reporting expectations from Medicare and other payers, choosing to report (never mind when, and how) can become just another exercise in provider based procrastination. The Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) is a different beast. This is why we are talking about 90 Day Reporting!While CMS (Medicare) is throwing a bone this year by allowing penalty…

David Letterman may be gone from regular late-night television, but his Top 10 shtick is still a favorite well past a time when the younger crowd cannot recall who made it popular.  What’s not going away is the Quality Payment Program (QPP) and thankfully, it includes Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDR) to personalize and optimize the quality measure reporting experience.  QCDRs…

Ok, so you probably guessed I don’t own an EMR (because I am the Principal/CEO of Patient360). However, I have worked on more than nine in the last twenty plus years in medicine both in and outside of hospital systems. The expectations are the same in-house or on your own in the private sector. EMRs should improve care, save money, and help all healthcare providers better communicate with improved data capture.
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Decide how you are going to report NOW for 2017. Start collecting data now! If you know the measures now, it doesn’t matter what system you are on, you can build easy ways to track measures if you know what they are.
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When reimbursement is tied to performance (as it currently is in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) 2016 reporting season), how do we navigate between what is “right” and what will get us paid?

Registries are in high gear now reviewing boatloads of data as providers finalize their 2016 PQRS submissions. What is the best way to honor the supposed Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) “spirit” and intention of the program (to improve quality and patient care) and still receive the maximum reimbursements to which the provider believes s/he is entitled to receive for services rendered? As a qualified registry, that has been vetted by CMS, we walk the fine line everyday of providing a balanced response to this question.

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2017 is almost upon us! Are you freaking out because we’re in the last few weeks of 2016 PQRS reporting and you haven’t actually participated in the program yet? Have you just received a letter from CMS telling you that you were penalized from last year, and you’re not sure what to do about any of it? Fear not, there’s…