In a recent Health and Health Networks Article, Sheridan Healthcare's Chief Medical Officer for the emergency medicine division, Catherine Polera, commented on new changes to PQRS reporting.
Emergency department physicians face a limited number of choices that can be used in PQRS specialty, according to the article. Polera noted that CMS removed some of the core measures that may have worked in an ED setting and replaced them with ambulatory care measures.
Polera noted that she and others would like to see the PQRS program pay more attention to providing relevant measure for specialty physicians.
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