Don’t risk losing out on your 2011 PQRI bonuses

Your Expert Presenter

Leslie Witkin

Leslie, president of Physician’s First Inc. in Orlando, Fla., is a graduate of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock School of Nursing in New Hampshire and has over twenty years of successful experience in medical practice management. Her long term healthcare career has fostered mutual respect in clinical and professional relationships with physicians, medical office personnel, state and federal legislators and executives in other organizations that represent physician interests.

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One PQRI reporting mistake can cost your practice thousands of dollars in lost bonuses.

CMS is proposing new changes to the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) that could make or break your chance for success in the program next year. These changes make earning bonuses, equal to 1% of your Medicare charges, much more difficult. However, earning a Medicare quality of care bonus in 2011 will be easier when you use your claims to submit reporting data to CMS. It’s important to know how to report the PQRI data codes to CMS the right way – otherwise your practice will lose the bonus.

Your practice also has the opportunity to increase the 1% bonus by an extra 0.5% if it completes the Maintenance of Certification program. PQRI expert Leslie Witkin will show you how to comply with this and other proposals impacting this quality-improvement and revenue-boosting program.

Increase your practice’s Medicare reimbursements by complying with PQRI program changes.

You’ll learn:

• How to earn the extra 0.5% bonus through the new Maintenance of Certification program
• New thresholds for claims-based reporting to earn extra cash for your practice
• New PQRI measures and group practice registry options that may be a better fit for your physicians
• Deleted PQRI measures that are no longer a reporting option for you and your peers
• The new appeals process that you’ll use when CMS denies a bonus that’s rightfully yours

Register for this interactive training opportunity to set your practice on the right track to earning its PQRI bonus.