PQRS reporting mandatory for all eligible practices in 2015

A clinical registry is recommended, but not required, for practices participating in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System, which was made mandatory in 2015 by the Affordable Care Act, according to one practice management consultant.Physicians participating in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) must report on at least nine quality measures in 2015, Kevin J. Corcoran, COE, CPC, CPMA, FNAO, said in an update of Medicare’s incentive programs and utilization changes at Hawaiian Eye 2015.

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