I have had a long discussion with AC support about this.
PQRS SUbmitter BEWARE
There are some big changes from 2013 to 2014
You have to choose PQRS across 3 domains,
So just doing diabetes is not good enough for claims submission.
There is some similarilty between PQRS and CQMs 9clinincal Quality measures) which is a part of meaningful use
BEWARE all PQRS are not CQMs ie COPD measures and others (I am a pulmonologist)
If you are beyond the 1st year of meaningful use you have to submit these cqms electronically.
Again these need to be across 3 domains.
AC is not ready for meaningfuluse 2. The guardian angels in charge of these processes do not know how AC will submit these electronically.
I am waiting for FEb when they wll be at PRiMEd to find out more.
I have started to mark these on claims and have my MAs getting trained on doing the majority of the work.
Tried the reporting with AC help, however it does not get me a numerical no for BMI, blood pressure. Will attempt to put these it tracked data and see if a report can be ran that gives me numbers.
An easy PQRS is to mark Flu vaccine administration (has to be collected 1/1-3/31 and 10/1 to 12/31
It appears CMS is trying to get away from claims submission, they have a commentary period on this.
If you do group measures and submit them via registry you only have to submit 20 patients, which can get done in a jiffy.
On claims you have to report on at least 50%.
Does anyone use know of a registry tied into AC??
At the end we can claim behind our names MD, PhD-PQRS, Phd-CQM
This is certainly worth more than board recerticification, that does not give us extra credentials or doing MOCs,
