PQRI Provisions Included in Recent Medicare Legislation

Pay-for-Performance (P4P)

The AAN is committed to helping its members better understand Pay-for-Performance as it develops.

What is P4P?

• Glossary (.pdf)
• FAQs (.pdf)
• AAN PowerPoint (.pdf)

Medicare Pay for Reporting Program

• CMS Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
• 2008 Neurology PQRI Measures and Specifications (.pdf)

2008 Tools

• AMA Tools Measure #4 (Falls Screening)
• AMA Tools Measure #9 (Prescribing of Antidepressants)
• AMA Tools Measure #10 (Stroke Imaging)
• AMA Tools Measure #11 (Stroke Imaging)
• AMA Tools Measure #31 (DVT Prophylaxis)
• AMA Tools Measure #32 (Antiplatelet Therapy)
• AMA Tools Measure #33 (Anticoagulation Therapy)
• AMA Tools Measure #34 (Consideration of t-PA)
• AMA Tools Measure #35 (Dysphagia Screening)
• AMA Tools Measure #36 (Consideration of Rehab)
• AMA Tools Measure #46 (Medication Reconcilliation)
• AMA Tools Measure #47 (Advance Care Plan)
• AMA Tools Measure #106 (Major Depressive Disorder)
• AMA Tools Measure #107 (MDD Suicide Assessment)
• AMA Tools Measure #114 (Inquiry About Tobacco Use)
• AMA Tools Measure #115 (Advising Smoking Cessation)
• AMA Tools Measure #124 (Adoption of EHR)
• AMA Tools Measure #125 (Adoption of e-Prescribing)
• AMA Tools Measure #126 (Peripheral Neuropathy)
• AMA Tools Measure #128 (Universal Weight Screening)
• AMA Tools Measure #130 (Medication Verification)
• AMA Tools Measure #133 (Cognitive Impairment Screening)
• AMA Tools Measure #134 (Clinical Depression Screening)

Archive of 2007 Tools and Specifications

Educational Opportunities

• Missed the Annual Meeting? Access live webcasts from the Practice Colloquium and Controversial Issues in Practice session

Articles

• Get Involved in Pay-for-Performance Efforts—the AAN Needs You (AANnews, September 2007)
• New CMS Pay-for-reporting Program: Sample Scenarios (AANnews, July 2007)
• Prepare Your Office to Report Quality Measures Starting July 1, 2007 (AANnews, June 2007)
• Pay-for-Performance: How Did We Get Here? (AANnews, April 2007)
• Medicare to Offer 1.5-Percent Bonus to Physicians Reporting on Quality Measures (AANnews, March 2007)
• The Academy Takes the Lead in Pay for Performance (Neurology Today, September 19, 2006)
• Pay-for-Performance: Is it Quality or Cost That Matters? (Applied Neurology, April 2006)
• Profiling and Pay-for-Performance: Is it Quality or Cost That Matters? (Applied Neurology; March 2006)