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"The American Medical Association (AMA) is appalled by news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today that more than 50 percent of eligible professionals will face penalties under the Meaningful Use program in 2015, a number that is even worse than we anticipated.
A recent survey of more than 18,500 physicians finds that 22 percent of them are opting out of or disregarding altogether the meaningful use electronic health records program.
How to Avoid 2016 PQRS Payment Adjustment in 2014
Individual eligible professionals (EPs) or those that are part of a group practice participating in PQRS must satisfactorily report data on quality measures during 2014 to avoid the 2016 payment adjustment. CMS has produced a document entitled 2016 PQRS Payment Adjustment that explains how to avoid the payment adjustment.
On December 13,CMS released the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measure documents for 2014. You are advised that some of these measures may be different from the PQRS measure documents of prior years.