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Physician
Quality
Improvement
Initiative
On July 1, 2007,
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin the
voluntary Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). To assist
physicians and other eligible professionals who may elect to
participate,
the American
Medical Association in collaboration with CMS, Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc., and the National Committee for Quality Assurance,
has developed participation tools.
The tools are designed to:
· aid in the selection of measures by physicians and other eligible professionals wishing to participate in the program · link to background information on the quality measures, including both the rationale and evidence base for each measure· aid in the data collection required to report clinical performance data
For each of the 74 measures in the program, the tools are now available online at www.ama-assn.org/go/toolsMedicarePQRI
CMS also posted technical corrections to some of the program's measure specifications. Additional information can be found on the CMS website:
June 18, 2007 Technical Corrections Release Notes, Version 1.1 [PDF, 19KB]
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