Pqrs reporting is a pain. I have reported on the diabetes measure group and have tracked the 6 reportable items in tracked data. It was a pain picking the 30 Medicare pts with the right billing codes for the right encounters but then all I had to do was print the tracked data for each and enter into the registry. I wondered if it would be worth the effort but it only took me a couple hours. The problem is that despite the reports being essentially the same, ever year they are just a tad different,e.g. This was the first year that the E&M code was part of the report. Other years, the visit had to be certain codes but you just needed to be sure they were. This year you had to enter the actual E&M code for the date. Tedious because with the registry that wasn't evident until you got into the registry to enter your data.
