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Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Registry

The introduction of CMS PQRS reporting, a new system for ensuring health care compliance and improvement grounded in evidence-based guidelines is upon us. The flexible NetHealth CCI Registry^RS is a CMS-approved means for simplifying physician reporting under PQRS. Used to support the NetHealth 1stAscent PQRS Registry this platform may be integrated into any PI project to provide maximum benefit to users.

What is the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)?

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is the continuation of the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) PQRI program initiated in 2007. Offering an incentive reimbursement of 2 percent in 2007-2010, 1 percent in 2011 and .5 percent in 2012 calculated on all annual Medicare claims), the program requires the submission of de-identified patient data on specified quality measures.

In the establishment stage since 2007, the incentive premium has been available to all 'eligible professionals’ reporting, regardless of demonstrated improvement. In 2011, reporting 0 percent on any measure disqualified participants from obtaining the incentive.

It is well established that registry reporting not only delivers up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines (removing much of the difficulty of chasing constantly evolving treatment methods and best practice). It does indeed have the potential to improve medical practice, raising the bar on quality health care to the betterment of patient care.

How Do PQRS and Performance Improvement Relate?

An approved CMS PQRS registry since 2009, NetHealth offers an integrated solution to incorporate the tangible benefit of Performance Improvement CME and MOC activities with PQRS reporting. Our web-based CCI Registry^RS system is user-friendly, scalable, and adaptable to any specialization or organizational need through collaborative, evidence-based design. NetHealth also offers the 1stAscent PQRS Registry for individual and group reporting, with a generous referral program for organizations. Contact us for more information!

For Boards, Specialty Societies, Colleges, and other licensure and certification organizations:

Mandated Part IV Performance Improvement MOC is underway. The addition of a PQRS component to your web-based PI CME and MOC activities encourages participation with the added bonus of gaining incentives, while offering an impacting learning opportunity.

For health care networks and organizations and other accredited CME and CNE providers:

Offering your valued stakeholders the opportunity to qualify for PQRS incentives allows them to benefit from the PI experience twofold. Scalable for use by individual physicians, group practices, and departmental PI planning, the NetHealth registry offers a service that eliminates the need to purchase costly, time-consuming and cumbersome systems to facilitate PQRS reporting.

Benefits of Combining NetHealth's Performance Improvement Platform & PQRS

• The NetHealth system ensures that all submissions are accurate and correct before filing, to avoid rejected measurements
• Participants are presented with CMS approved evidence-based measures to improve their practice and increase patient satisfaction
• Participants receive feedback on their performance in areas and quality measures important to the CMS agency
• The NetHealth program helps participants prepare to integrate the quality measures and registry reporting that will inevitably continue to be part of health care practice in the years to come. By participating in a customized PI activity that includes PQRS, users gain experience and reap the benefits of implementing suggested improvements, before CMS payments and penalties are based on mandated reporting measures and pay-for-performance.
• By participating in PQRS, physicians have the opportunity to contribute, not only to their own quality improvement, but also to the improvement of the health care industry as a whole by adding their experience and growth to CMS registry data.

Visit our 2011 PQRS Registry to learn more.