CMS to Test Additional Quality Measures

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin testing 11 new quality measures for possible adoption in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program in future years.

The new measures focus on kidney disease, skin disease, eye care, imaging, arthritis, and cancer. CMS wishes to gather test data for these measures to help us plan future PQRI measure sets.

CMS encourages providers to submit data for these test measures on Part B claims from July 1 through September 30. Providers will not receive financial incentive for reporting these test measures.

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