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Medicare allows you to report via CMS1500 claim forms, on every qualifying patient.
Or the other option is to supply a sample of relevant patient types through a registry (30 patients).

I am a D.O. and the American Osteopathic Association has a web portal through which I pay about $150 to access the registry tool. I go online and input data on 30 patients. I am using a different disease state, diabetes. However I could pick any number of disease states to sample.

After selecting the diagnosis I am going to report, the AOA website provides me the worksheets to use. My staff and I go through the relevant patient charts and record the data on the worksheets. Then we go online and input the data into the web-based registry.

Once the data is in, I get confirmation immediately that it's complete and received by the AOA. They submit the data on my behalf. I see reimbursement by Medicare about 9 months later.

This whole process takes about 4 hours and two staff to complete. it's not that painful. The registry process is much much easier for us than reporting on every Medicare B patient who is a diabetic (which is tons of them).