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Medical Specialties Urge Improved Timeline for Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Program

Alliance of Specialty Medicine Applauds Today’s Introduction of the Voluntary Medicare Quality Repor

5/25/2007

The Alliance of Specialty Medicine, which has called for a voluntary Medicare quality reporting system to have an effective phase-in period, lauds the introduction of The Voluntary Medicare Quality Reporting Act of 2007, S. 1519.


Introduced last night by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), the Act would amend a provision of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, which requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop, through the rule-making process, a new quality reporting system by 2008 -- even before the 6-month trial Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) concludes...


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