Greenway Medical Technologies' EHR Solution, PrimeSuite, Enables Eligible Professionals to Participate in PQRI Through Integration With Outcome Sciences, a 2009 CMS Qualified PQR...( CARROLLTON Ga. Aug....),Health

CARROLLTON, Ga., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Facts:

• A voluntary program that provides financial incentives to care providers who successfully report on a specified set of data gathered from services and procedures they provide to patients under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
  

• PQRI registries report directly to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
  

• By reporting a minimum of three measures on specified patient groups, physicians can earn bonuses on all Medicare billing collected during the year
  

• Eligible professionals are physicians, practitioners and therapists who provide services that are paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
  

Greenway Medical Technologies Inc. today announced that, through an ongoing partnership with Outcome Sciences Inc. (d/b/a Outcome), Greenway's flagship integrated electronic health record (EHR) practice management and interoperability solution, PrimeSuite(R), incorporates all 153 individual quality measures and all seven measure groups through the CMS approved PQRI registry reporting method. This integration and partnership enables eligible care providers who report the appropriate measures or measure groups to receive a two percent bonus payment on all of their Medicare billing for 2009.

This innovation allows for real-time data submissions or retrospective review and submission of patient data directly from PrimeSuite to the Outcome(TM) PQRI Registry anytime throughout the year. Medical practices can use the data for patient outreach and quality improvement. Outcome submits the data to CMS one time at the end of the year. The registry reporting option enables the performance dat
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