The Medicare physician quality reporting system will use participation in 2013 to determine who will be penalized starting in 2015.
Physicians who participate in Medicare can consider 2012 to be the last year to practice reporting quality measures to the government before the exercise truly becomes real. Doctors who have not mastered the Medicare physician quality reporting system by the end of this year might find themselves locked into a lower Medicare pay rate a few years down the road.
Read the full article from the American Medical News HERE.
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Tue, February 7, 2012
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