Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert
MACRA:
Identify 19 Quality Measures for Your Oncology Practice
Published on Fri May 26, 2017
You’ll see familiar choices from PQRS. Make sure your oncology 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 Although most of these were available for reporting under the now-outdated Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the monetary opportunities and penalties get even greater based on your participation in the new Quality Payment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 this in “Get Up to Speed With Oncology Quality Reporting With These FAQs” on page 41. Check out the following table to learn which 19 quality measures apply to oncology:
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