Medicare 2009 incentive payments due soon
September 9, 2010Physicians who qualified for Medicare bonuses under the 2009 Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program will begin receiving payments this month, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Payments for practitioners who qualified for bonuses under Medicare’s 2009 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) will be issued in October, the agency says.
PQRI 2009 Feedback Reports, outlining how well practitioners did in meeting the initiative’s quality reporting requirements, will be available in November.
Any practitioners who participated in the PQRI last year may request a feedback report by contacting the local Medicare carrier or access the report online using the Authorized Access to the CMS Computer Services (IACS) system (www.cms.gov/IACS).
