Fiscal Deal Lets Physicians Participate In Clinical Data Registries In Lieu Of PQRS

Fiscal Deal Lets Physicians Participate In Clinical Data Registries In Lieu Of PQRS-insidehealthpolicy: Medical specialty societies that have been urging the administration and Congress to allow provider participation in qualified clinical data registries to count towards the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) requirements are thrilled that their proposal made it into the “fiscal cliff” deal. Inside Health Policy has also learned that CMS intends to examine ways that clinical registries could be used to satisfy meaningful use requirements, and plans to seek public input on the concept sometime in the next few weeks as part of a request for comments on the development of criteria for a “qualified” registries.