Friday, June 6, 2008

CMS/Medicare: Register Now to Access Your 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Feedback Report

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce that 2007 PQRI Final Feedback Reports will be made available in mid-July on a secure website. Reports will be available to each practice, identified by Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), under which at least one eligible professional reported 2007 PQRI quality measures data. Reports available to the practice will include information on reporting rates, clinical performance, and incentives earned by individual professionals, with summary information on reporting success and incentives earned at the practice (TIN) level.


Although the PQRI feedback reports are not yet available on this website, CMS recommends that practices take the time now to set up their online account so they can access their report as soon as it is available. The first step is for the professionals and appropriate staff to register for access through a new CMS security system known as the Individuals Authorized Access to CMS Computer Services - Provider Community (IACS-PC).

At this time, only practices with multiple professionals or individual professionals with staff members who will access the PQRI feedback reports should register in IACS. The first step in establishing the practice as an IACS-PC organization is registering a security official for the organization. Because the process of verifying the security official’s authorization to access the practice’s confidential information is not fully automated and can take some time, such practices should begin registering their representatives for IACS accounts now.

If you are an individual professional who will access this service personally, and have no staff who will use the system on your behalf, wait until further notice to register in IACS. This registration process is simpler and less time consuming.

Please do not register if you did not submit PQRI quality-measures data for 2007.

The following MLN Matters articles address key questions and answers about the registration process and can be found at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE0747.pdf and http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE0753.pdf on the CMS website.

More information about registering in IACS and accessing 2007 PQRI Participant Feedback Reports will soon be posted on http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PQRI.

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