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For those of us who are not MDs, Dr. Abston explains the certification process and how the PPACA factors it in to medicare payments.

http://pippaabston.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-part-17/

I’m looking today at Section 3002, on Improvements in the Physician Quality Reporting System– this applies to Medicare providers. Starting in 2015, there will be “incentives” for reporting quality measures– but when I read the Act, I don’t see any actual incentives, just penalties for not reporting. So, if a doctor doesn’t “satisfactorily submit data” on quality measures, she will be paid 98.5% of the usual payment for services, and this drops to 98% in 2016.

The quality measures may start to include MOC (Maintenance of Certification), which hasn’t been done in the past.
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