Congress Approves Medicare Quality-of-Care Reporting Rewards Program

January 1, 2007 Congress Approves Medicare Quality-of-Care Reporting Rewards Program On December 9, 2006, the United States Congress approved legislative changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule that would reward physicians who voluntarily report their use of quality-of-care measures. While physician base payment rates were frozen for 2007, physicians that choose to participate in the physician voluntary reporting program (PVRP) would be eligible for bonuses of 1.5% in the second half of 2007. The entire legislative package passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 367 to 45. President Bush signed the . . .