RESCHEDULED: National Provider Call on 2011 Physician Quality Reporting System & eRx Incentive Program

Rescheduled for Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:30-3:00pm EST (Originally scheduled for Tue Jan 18, 1:30-3:00pm EST)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Provider Communications Group will host a national provider conference call on the 2011 Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program. The Physician Quality Reporting System is voluntary quality reporting program that provides an incentive payment to identified individual eligible professionals (EPs), and beginning with the 2010 Physician Quality Reporting System, group practices who satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) services furnished to Medicare Part-B Fee-For-Service (FFS) beneficiaries. The Physician Quality Reporting System was first implemented in 2007 as a result of section 101 of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (TRHCA), and further expanded as a result of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA), and the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA). The eRx Incentive Program is an incentive program for eligible professionals initially implemented in 2009 as a result of section 132(b) of the MIPPA. The eRx Incentive Program promotes the adoption and use of eRx systems by individual eligible professionals and beginning with the 2010 eRx Incentive Program, group practices.

Agenda:

Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program Payment Adjustment
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Incentive Program Differences
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Submission
Q & A with CMS Physician Quality Reporting System and eRx subject matter experts

Educational products are available on the Physician Quality Reporting System and the eRx Incentive Program at http://www.CMS.gov/PQRI and http://www.CMS.gov/eRxIncentive, respectively. Feel free to download the resources prior to the call so that you may ask questions of the CMS presenters.

CMS will be adding a webinar as part of this national conference call (details follow below). This feature will allow participants who are on the internet the ability to follow the presentation online as it is given as well as the opportunity to answer polling questions during the presentation. This will not have any effect on those participants who are only dialing in to the audio portion of the call. Participants who are not participating in the webinar should be sure to download the presentation for the call in advance from the CMS website at http://www.CMS.gov/PQRI/04_CMSSponsoredCalls.asp.

In order to receive the call-in information, you must register for the call. (Note that if you are planning to sit in with a group, only one person needs to register to receive the call-in information.) Registration will close at 1:30pm EST on Wed Jan 26, or when available space has been filled; no exceptions will be made, so please register early. To register for the call:
Visit http://www.eventsvc.com/palmettogba/012711.
Fill in all required information and click “Register.”
You will be taken to the “Thank you for registering” page and will receive a confirmation email shortly thereafter. Please save this page, in the event that your server blocks the confirmation emails. (If you do not receive the confirmation email, please check your spam/junk mail filter as it may have been directed there.)
If assistance for hearing impaired services is needed, the request must be sent to medicare.ttt@palmettogba.com no later than 3 business days before the event.

At the time of the call, you will first dial in for the call audio, then (if you are participating in the webinar) direct your browser to https://webinar.CMS.hhs.gov/PQRSandERX and sign in as a guest (using your first and last name).

For those of who will be unable to attend, a written and audio transcript of the call will be available at least one week after the call at http://www.CMS.gov/PQRI.

Dallas L Alford IV, CPA is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina and owner of Atlantic Financial Consulting, a consulting firm that provides comprehensive medical billing services, practice management consulting, coding audits, Medicare compliance, Medicare RAC support and other general medical practice consulting services.
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