Registry reporting
• Certain measures may be reported by a registry at the end of the year, rather than ongoing, claims based
• These are indicated by an R in the list
• Some measures may only be reported by registry reporting, not claims based on as part of a measures group
• Practice must use an approved registry
• List on CMS web site at
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PQRI/20_Reporting.asp#TopOfPage
Using a registry
• Most likely if you have an EMR and can collect data from your EMR
• Also possible if you have entered quality data codes but not submitted them for some reason
• The registries are commercial vendors: consider what will it cost you to use them versus what your incentive payment will be
If you plan to use a registry for 2009, talk to them now.
How will you collect the data so they can extract it??