Leadership discusses quality, reimbursement, and medical home
Practice Page: What PQRI Means to Rheumatologists
The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PRQI) is a voluntary quality reporting program initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2007. CMS provides bonus payments to eligible providers who successfully report on applicable PQRI measures. For 2010, rheumatologists who successfully participate in PQRI can earn an incentive payment of 2% of the…
A New Pain PILL: Lending a Personal Approach to Personalized Medicine
In caring for patients with chronic pain, I have tried all kinds of treatments to reduce bothersome symptoms, hoping to achieve improvements that are better than the usual one or two points on a visual analog scale. The list of these treatments is long—no doubt, you have tried the same ones—and include the expected array…
How a Rheumatologist Thinks: Cognition and Diagnostic Errors in Rheumatology
The Institute of Medicine has reported that each year up to 98,000 deaths result from iatrogenic injury and error.1 Autopsy series have suggested a 15% error rate in the practice of medicine. These numbers are surprising and concerning and raise important questions about how we practice medicine. What kind of errors do we make as…
Ethics Forum: Understanding the Challenges in Rheumatology Today
Understanding the challenges in rheumatology today
Rheum with a View: Panush’s Perspectives on Selections from the Literature
Panush’s perspectives on selections from the literature
Registries and Rheumatology Quality
The RCR has short- and long-term benefits for the subspecialty
What Can Clinical Decision Support Do for You?
The current health system places increasing pressure on physicians and their practices to find new and innovative ways to maximize reimbursement through the implementation of programs and workflows that ensure the delivery of higher quality care—all while the ever-increasing needs of the patient population are placing a greater demand on physician time.
The Most Cost-Effective Diagnosis Is the Correct Diagnosis
Comments on the Medicare decision to eliminate consultation codes
The Good and Bad of Healthcare Reform
Even though the law was passed, the work of reform is just beginning
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