Posted by: Lucy on 06/21/2007 11:17 PM
Updated by: Lucy on 06/21/2007 11:17 PM
Expires: 01/01/2012 12:00 AM
NEW Medicare/Caid Tool Kit

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a Tool
Kit for the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) that is
designed to assist eligible professionals— DPMs are eligible—with
successful reporting. The Tool Kit consists of some existing
educational resources plus new measure-specific worksheets to walk the
user step-by-step through reporting for each measure.

To access the Tool Kit, visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PQRI, and scroll
down to the PQRI Tool Kit tab. The page serves as a "Read This First"
Guide to the resources that are available to download.



The Tool Kit consists of the following:



1. 2007 PQRI Physician Quality Measures

2. 2007 Coding for Quality Handbook

3. 2007 Code Master

4. MLN Matters Article 5640 - Coding & Reporting Principles

5. Data Collection Worksheets



According to CMS, The Tool Kit will be expanded as new educational
resources become available.





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