Physicians who don’t successfully report for Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) this year will face a 2 percent payment penalty in 2016. One of the ways to report is through clinical registries, for which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just released the approved lists.
Individual physicians and group practice who wish to report using the clinical registry method can identify this year’s qualified registries in an online list from CMS.
The new qualified clinical data registries reporting option, however, is available only to individual physicians, not group practices. This year’s list is available online.
Additional information about these clinical data registry reporting options is outlined in the CMS documents “2014 PQRS: Qualified clinical data registries participation made simple” and “2014 registry reporting made simple.”
Individual physicians who are not using one of the two registry reporting options instead can report on individual PQRS quality measures using the following methods:
- Medicare Part B claims
- Direct electronic health record (EHR) using certified EHR technology
- Certified EHR technology via data submission vendor
Visit the CMS website to learn more about how to get started reporting for this year’s PQRS requirements.
