Participation can put extra bread in your basket.

Back again for 2010 is Medicare’s incentive-driven physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI), aimed at tracking quality metric or patient care services that physicians provide. When the practice treats enough patients in the same category, some PQRI dollars might be only a few codes away.

If you know the basics and focus your efforts, PQRI reporting can be a breeze and a boon to your bottom line.

Anyone confused about PQRI — or with questions about setting up a PQRI program in a specialty setting — should go immediately to the CMS PQRI tool kit.

Where? Check out the tool kit here.

“This kit includes valuable resources to assist eligible professionals in the successful integration of PQRI measurement into their practice. CMS suggests that eligible professionals review and discuss the following materials with their staff,” Medicare says.

The kit lists three PQRI “tools” designed to help practices comply with PQRI:

1. 2009 Implementation Advice for 2009 PQRI and E-Prescribing — A publication that introduces the coding and reporting principles underlying successful PQRI reporting.

2. 2009 PQRI Code Master Single Source — A numerical listing of all codes included in PQRI intended for incorporation into billing software.

3. 2009 Data Collection Worksheets — You should use measure-specific worksheets that walk the user step-by-step through reporting for each measure. “These worksheets may be used by the practice on a concurrent basis to collect PQRI data,” CMS says.

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