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Add to Your Ob-gyn Practice's Bottom Line Via PQRI Participation

Published on Fri Feb 05, 2010

Medicare again making certain services more valuable ... provided you code properly. Is your ob-gyn practice is looking to make a few extra bucks for the same services in 2010? Medicare is obliging you yet again. Back for 2010 is Medicare's incentive-driven physician quality reporting initiative (PQRI), which tracks patient care via E/M services, surgical procedures, and diagnostic condition evaluations that your ob/gyn may provide. When a physician in your practice treats a Medicare patient, some PQRI dollars might be only a few codes away. What's In it for Me? An extra payout for PQRI-eligible patients that your ob-gyn treats and you code correctly; for 2010, Medicare will fork over about 2 percent more for these patients. In order to qualify for the PQRI bonus, you have to report on at least three of 179 PQRI measures in 80 percent ofthe eligible cases, explains Alice Marie Reybitz, RN, BA, CPC, CPC-H, [...]
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