CMS and PQRS?????

[pharmer]

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Happy 2015 and new CMS PQRS requirements! My group is private practice but hospital based (i.e. we collect our professional fee for the CPT code but no facility fees, no overhead). As I am sure everyone is aware the changes set forth for 2015 that now require EP (eligible providers) to report at least 9 PQRS measures over at least 3 domains in 50% of their CMS patients to avoid 2% of their payment from CMS being withheld in 2017. Curious how everyone is approaching this. We are considering getting a 3rd party business consultant to help us get this set up as we are feeling overwhelmed at this point with meeting these quality indicators. Which ones are your guys choosing to try and meet? Are you picking a set 9 and trying to apply these to every patient? We are an anesthesia practice as well so we are probably going to submit to our specialty QCDR NACOR but are meeting some issues with this as we have EPIC for our EMR which is not very user friendly for this and have a separate office off site that does billing (uses PPM software) for both our pain clinic and OR cases.

 

[nvrsumr]

AAPMR has a "pqrs wizard" that can walk you thru the steps

 

[hyperalgesia]

From the beginning I decided to accept the cut from Medicare patients. I run a tight ship and happily ignore meaningful use. I just try to provide good care. If I were you I would avoid expensive decisions until there's more clarity.

 

[pharmer]

Unfortunately (fortunately?) we do anesthesia too and have 30 providers in our group which is no small chunk of change if we ignored these meaningless indicators especially give we do about 50% medicare

 

[hyperalgesia]

Unfortunately (fortunately?) we do anesthesia too and have 30 providers in our group which is no small chunk of change if we ignored these meaningless indicators especially give we do about 50% medicare

It may be worth since you can share admin cost to implement. So many things could happen. CMS might make it even more cumbersome to comply with MU. They might make it almost impossible. At the same time they might make it mandatory.

 

[Ligament]

Medicare can **** off with this BS meaningless use crap. I'm fed up with this. I'll take the 2% cut, as compliance will cost me a buttload of money.