CMS has launched the Physician Voluntary Reporting Program to identify how physicians can efficiently collect and report the data that CMS will use in its quality improvement initiatives to reduce chronic disease complications and prevent unnecessary hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries. Participating physicians will begin reporting data for 16 of the 36 clinical measures CMS has developed with endorsement by medical specialty societies. To eliminate the burden of having doctors collect quality data from chart abstraction, CMS has defined a set of HCPCS codes that can be submitted with the usual claims data. Confidential feedback reports are intended to help physicians improve the accuracy and completeness of the data they report. For more information, download this HHS article.
