Physician Quality Reporting Programs Strategic Vision

The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is planning to align its Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program with Medicare value-based purchasing initiatives. In a key goal in addition to aligning the programs’ reporting requirements, CMS intends to align its portfolio of health information technology-enabled quality measures to support all CMS public reporting, quality improvement, and value-based purchasing programs, so that data generated as a by-product of care could be submitted to a single interface for use by multiple quality programs. CMS also seeks to align incentive payments and payment adjustments across programs . . .