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

Tuesday, April 19, 2011  1:30-3pm EDT

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 group practices that satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered Physician Fee Schedule services furnished to Medicare Part-B Fee-For-Service beneficiaries; the Physician Quality Reporting System (formerly known as PQRI) 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 MIPPA; the eRx Incentive Program promotes the adoption and use of eRx systems by individual eligible professionals and group practices.

Agenda:
Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program Payment Adjustment; and
Q & A with CMS Physician Quality Reporting System and eRx subject matter experts

A PowerPoint slide presentation will be posted to the Physician Quality Reporting System webpage at http://www.CMS.gov/PQRI/04_CMSSponsoredCalls.asp for you to download prior to the call so that you can follow along with the presenter.  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.

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.  Also note that, if you plan to request continuing education credit from your professional organization and if this organization requires proof of registration, you will need to personally register so that you receive a confirmatory email.

Registration will close at 1:30pm EDT on Monday, April 18, 2011 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/041911.
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.

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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