The physician quality reporting initiative--a gateway to pay for performance: what every health care professional should know

Quality Management in Health Care
Jonah Stulberg

Abstract

The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is a pay-for-reporting (P4R) program sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services open to all health care providers that treat Medicare patients. This P4R initiative provides financial incentives for participation and unlike most pay-for-performance (P4P) programs, there are no penalties for poor performance. PQRI therefore offers Medicare providers nationwide a low-risk opportunity to gain experience with reporting procedures likely to be incorporated into P4P reimbursement schemes. The 74 measures used during the first reporting period are applicable to both generalist and specialist providers and open participation in PQRI to a much broader audience compared with previous federal initiatives. Also in contrast to programs that measure hospital or group quality and reimburse for services at the health system level, measurement and reimbursement in PQRI directly affects individual Medicare providers. The combination of provider-level measurement and reimbursement and efforts to assess care delivered by both generalist and specialist Medicare providers highlights how this P4R initiative is truly a gateway to a P4P reimbursement system. Participation in the PQRI progr...Continue Reading

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