CMS provides status of PQRI
Patient Access Weekly Advisor, December 10, 2008
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CMS published a new report -- "Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI): 2007 Reporting Experience" – last week. The government reports challenges and successes in the report on the PQRI, established to link payments to reporting quality information.
“The PQRI is an important first step toward establishing a value-based purchasing program for physicians,” CMS says in the report.
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