Medicare Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Compliance

PQRI Functionality Included with Every ADS System

Advanced Data Systems provides integrated support for Medicare's Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) in its medical practice automation solutions. This built-in functionality makes it very easy for medical practices to increase Medicare reimbursements by up to 1.5%.

PQRI, which is also referred to as "pay for performance," is program developed by CMS (Medicare) as a way of having medical practices report more detail on patient progress and outcomes simply by utilizing their practice management software as the vehicle for providing this enhanced data.

The benefit to practices adding PQRI codes to their submissions is that Medicare will pay up to an additional 1.5% of amounts reimbursed back to practices from the earliest PQRI starting date of July 1, 2007. Medicare will remit the additional amount to practices as a lump sum payment sometime during the month of July, 2008.

Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is a purely voluntary program. However, with the usage of PQRI codes integrated into ADS' systems, medical practices using the PQRI-compliant software will be able to easily derive the additional reimbursements.

For more information about Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative and how to use PQRI codes, please refer to www.cms.hhs.gov/pqri.

Advanced Data Systems provides full PQRI functionality to new and existing users
of its software at no additional cost.