From Modern Healthcare:
The CMS in 2008 paid more than $92 million in incentives to doctors under the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative compared with $36 million paid in 2007.
PQRI is a voluntary program that allows physicians and other eligible healthcare professionals to receive incentive payments for reporting data on quality measures related to services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries.
More than 162,800 professionals participated in the 2008 PQRI. Of those, the agency reported that more than 85,000 physicians and other eligible professionals successfully reported quality-related data, receiving incentive payments totaling more than $92 million—well above the $36 million paid in 2007.
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