With Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Incentives (PQRI) - 2% in 2009 and 2010 - now is the time to increase efficiencies in this area of your practice and qualify for the Medicare bonus payment. Select your participation method for 2009 PQRI reporting:

• Choose at least 3 of 153 individual PQRI quality measures and report at least 80% of qualified patients;  OR

• Choose 1 of 7 PQRI Measures Groups (Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Kidney Disease, Preventive Care, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery, Perioperative Care, and Back Pain), and track and report data for 30 consecutive patients or 80% of applicable Medicare cases (minimum 30 patients or 15 patients if 1/2 year reporting).

Each of the above methods can be reported through claims-based submission or registry-based submission.  Our recommendation is to select a PQRI Measures Group, track 30 consecutive patients and report through a registry.

For details on how you can participate, download the PrimaryData whitepaper, "2009 PQRI Simplified" which includes links to PQRI worksheets to help your practice prepare and track on individual measures or download our Excel or Word template for Preventative Care Group Measure reporting.

CMS published the final list of PQRI measures for 2009 which contains 153 unique quality indicators, 52 of which are new.  Three are also 7 PQRI Group Measures for 2009.

If you have questions on PQRI we would be glad to assist.  Please call us at 720-226-9270 for answers.  We also have healthcare technology solutions that can simplify PQRI for your practice.