MINNEAPOLIS, June 23, 2008—CMS is issuing a call to all physicians who wish to review their 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) quality measures data.

A 2007 PQRI Final Feedback Report will be available to any practice that had at least one eligible professional in the practice who reported 2007 PQRI quality measures data to CMS. Practices are identified by their taxpayer identification numbers.

Feedback in the report will include:

• information on reporting rates
• clinical performance
• incentives earned by individual professionals, and
• summary information on reporting success and incentives earned.

Physicians wishing to do so should register now with CMS' security system so that access to the reports will be quick and easy when they become available in mid-July.

It's important that practices take time now to set up their online accounts because security and confidentiality precautions could mean a bottleneck in CMS' security system if it receives requests from a lot of registrants at the same time.

The new security system is known as the Individuals Authorized Access to CMS Computer Services-Provider Community, or IACS-PC.

Read additional details about the registration process for IACS-PC in a recent issue of Medlearn Matters,an online CMS newsletter for Medicare providers.