Think the PQRI isn't worth the extra time? Think again.
Urologists: You don't have to spend hours upon hours researching and reviewing countless web pages to learn how to participate in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program. So don't pass up your opportunity to get Medicare bonuses simply for providing the high-quality care you always do. In this 1-hour audio session, our expert Michael Ferragamo, Jr., MD, FACS, will teach you everything urologists need to know about PQRI participation. You'll walk away with all the tools necessary to participate and successfully complete the PQRI program -- and get the full financial incentive bonus you deserve.
Here's what you will learn:
- The scoop on the new PQRI format and codes you need to get your bonus payments.
- Review the requirements for participation in the PQRI program.
- The urology-specific quality measures you can report.
- Find out what quality measures you can no longer report for 2009.
- Eliminate confusion over the Category II codes and modifiers you must use.
- Expert-created flow charts that explain how to report and document quality measures specific to urology.
Have additional questions about PQRI for urology? You have the floor with the speaker during an interactive Q&A.
Who should attend? Urologists, as well as urology coders, front desk personnel, office administrators and managers, and anyone involved with or responsible for starting and maintaining a PQRI system.
Your registration includes:
- Flexible enrollment. Scheduling conflict? No problem. This session is also available on CD.
- Expert answers to your tough questions during the interactive Q&A period.
- Complimentary attendee package, including the speaker's complete presentation handouts. Keep this quick reference tool close by for future use.
- One low price for all the staff you can stuff into a conference room.
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Michael A. Ferragamo, Jr., MD, FACS is the former chief of urology of Hempstead Medical Center and of Franklin Medical Center of Long Island, New York, and presently is assistant clinical professor of urology, State University of New York, Stony Brook School of Medicine. Starting as a sole practitioner in the 1960s, and now as the senior urologist in a six-person group, he has continued to oversee all coding and reimbursement issues in the practice. Dr. Ferragamo is a consultant on coding and reimbursement for the Physicians Reimbursement Systems (PRS) in Denver and is a consulting editor for Urology Coding Alert.
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