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Surprise, SurpriseFrom: Gordon Goldman (obgyndoc@swbell.net)Mon Sep 29 21:24:04 2008
Many physicians frustrated by attempts to understand PQRI results. AMNews (10/6, Glendinning) reports that "Medicare's flagship Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) has left in its wake a sea of annoyed physicians who say the pay-for-reporting program is being poorly managed by an unresponsive administration." Notably, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did not begin sending out bonus checks until over "a year after nearly 100,000 doctors started reporting quality measures to Medicare for the first time." In addition, "nearly half of the physicians who tried for a 1.5 percent bonus failed to get one, prompting doctors who never received the anticipated check to download their reports and find out why." Many who attempted this, however, "were defeated by stringent security measures, and some gave up before they could see their performance. Those who did found the data useless in telling them how to improve quality." As a result of such issues, the AMA "called for a much more extensive CMS education campaign, especially given doctors' low success rate." Gordon
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