CMS/Medicare: Updates to the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Web Page

CMS is pleased to announce that several section pages on the PQRI web page have been updated to include the following:

v The Overview page has been updated to announce the posting of the Registries that qualified for 2008 PQRI and information about the availability of the 2007 Feedback
Reports.
v The Reporting page has been updated to add the list of Registries that qualified for 2008 PQRI as a new downloadable file under the “Downloads” section.
v On the CMS Sponsored Calls page, the updated slides from the July 9 National Provider Call has been posted as a downloadable file under the “Downloads” section.
v The Educational Resources page has been updated to add the “2008 Errata Sheet: Getting Started with Claims-Based Reporting of Measures Groups” as a new downloadable file under the “Downloads” section.
v The 2007 PQRI Educational Resources page has been updated to add the two new Special Edition MLN articles on accessing the 2007 Feedback Reports (by individuals and by organizations) as new downloadable files under the “Downloads” section.

All publicly available information on the CMS Physician Quality Reporting Initiative can be found at (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PQRI), on the CMS website.