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anti-markup provisions in §414.50 will result in savings to
the program by reducing overutilization and
anti-competitive business arrangements. We cannot gauge
with any certainty the extent of these savings to the
Medicare program.
M1. Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)
As discussed section II.O1. of this final rule with
comment period, the final 2009 PQRI measures satisfy the
requirement of section 1848(k)(2)(B)(iii) of the Act that
the Secretary publish in the Federal Register by
November 15, 2008 a final set of quality measures that the
Secretary determines would be appropriate for eligible
professionals to use to submit data to the Secretary in
2009. As discussed in section II.O1. of this final rule
with comment period, we are also offering options in 2009
for reporting some of the 2009 PQRI measures via submission
of data to a clinical registry and options for reporting on
measures groups rather than individual measures.
Although there may be some cost incurred for
maintaining the measures used in the PQRI and their
associated code sets, and for expanding an existing
clinical data warehouse to accommodate registry-based data
submission for the PQRI, we do not anticipate a significant
cost impact on the Medicare program.
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