Ob-Gyn Coding Alert
MACRA:
Identify 24 Quality Measures for Your Ob-Gyn Practice
Published on Mon Apr 24, 2017
You’ll see familiar choices from PQRS. Make sure your ob-gyn 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 Although most of these were available for reporting under the now-outdated Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the monetary opportunities and penalties get even greater based on your participation in the new Quality Payment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 “Get Up to Speed With Ob-Gyn Quality Reporting With These FAQs” on page 33. Check out the following table to learn which 24 quality measures apply to ob-gyn: 
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