PQRS Deadline is Looming December 10, 2013 Medicare, Physician Resource, Practice Management Physician Quality Reporting System, PQRS 0 For those physicians who have not yet started submitting PQRS measures, the deadline to avoid a 1.5% fee schedule penalty in 2015 is fast approaching. There is still time for physicians to report at least one valid individual measure via claims for dates of service in 2013. There are many measures that only need to be reported once per reporting period (January 1 through December 31, 2013) that meet the requirement. The 2013 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Implementation Guide is a good place to start to identify any measure that might pertain to the physician’s practice. The 2013 PQRS Individual Claims Registry Measure Specification Supporting Documents provides the specifications that must be met in order to report the measure (frequency of reporting, procedure codes, diagnosis codes, and reporting measure code(s)). Please note that physicians cannot go back and add a measure code to claims already submitted. CMA has developed a guide for the reporting program which is available to members for free. Click here to access Getting Started with the Physician Quality Measure System. Additionally, Michele Kelly, Associate Director for CMA’s Center for Economic Services, will be available through December 20, 2013 to assist physicians with reporting requirements and specifications. You can reach her via phone at (213) 226-0338 or through email at mkelly@cmanet.org. Comments are closed.
