Orthopedic Coding Alert
MACRA:
Highlight These 21 Quality Measures for Your Orthopedic Practice
Published on Tue May 09, 2017
Make sure your orthopedic 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 Although most of these were available for reporting under the now-outdated Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the monetary opportunities and penalties get even greater based on your participation in the new Quality Payment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 “Prepare Yourself for Orthopedic Quality Reporting With These FAQs”. Check out the following table to learn which 24 quality measures apply to orthopedics:
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