2009-10-22
The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), administered through the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), provides a financial
incentive for eligible professionals to participate in its voluntary quality
reporting program. ASH has developed four hematology
measures to ensure that hematologists can participate in this program. For
the measures to remain in the PQRI program, they need to undergo a validation
process. ASH is currently surveying practices who utilize the hematology
measures to develop an appropriate validation process and to elicit volunteer
practices.
The validation process involves data extraction from patient medical records
by a contractor; there will not be a burden for participating practices.
Results will be structured in a way that will be helpful to participating
practices.
Please take a moment to complete a five-minute survey about your practice’s utilization
of the ASH PQRI measures. All information gained through this survey and/or
through the validation process will remain confidential. The survey will be
open until November 5.
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