Quality Matters: Academy Workshop Will Help Physicians Prepare for Medicare Quality Reporting Initiative
[Posted 03/08/07]

To help physicians understand and prepare for Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), including the required use of G and CPT-II codes for reporting quality data, CMA has added to its Leadership Academy agenda a new workshop, “Medicare Pay for Performance: What We Know, How to Prepare.” The workshop will be taught by Ron Bangasser, M.D., past president of CMA and one of the leaders of the Integrated Healthcare Association’s P4P Initiative.

The quality reporting initiative, which begins in July, establishes financial incentives – bonus payments of 1.5 percent of total allowed charges for covered Medicare physician services – for physicians who participate in this voluntary program. Initially, performance targets, or actual “pay for performance” (P4P), will not be part of the formula.

This workshop is just one of several Leadership Academy sessions on reimbursement and practice management issues.

CMA’s 10th Annual California Health Care Leadership Academy is April 13-15 at the Monterey Convention Center. Early-bird tuition is $595 for members, $895 for nonmembers. After March 16, tuition is $695 for members, $995 for nonmembers. Attendees can receive up to 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Visit the Leadership Academy website for more information or to register.

Contact: Roger Purdy, 916/444-5532 or rpurdy@cmanet.org.

The California Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The California Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.