General Surgery Coding Alert
QPP:
Identify Quality Measures for Your General Surgery Practice
Published on Wed Apr 19, 2017
See familiar choices from PQRS. Make sure your general surgery practice continues to get the pay you deserve for Medicare beneficiaries by appropriately reporting specific quality measures. Although most of these were available for reporting under the now-outdated Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the monetary opportunities and penalties get even greater based on your participation in the new Quality Payment Programs (QPP). You can read more about that in “Focus Quality Reporting for Your Surgeons With These FAQ’s” on page 35.
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