{"id":2207,"date":"2016-03-09T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:10:56","slug":"cms-deadline-approaching-for-the-2015-physician-quality-reporting-system-pqrs-data-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"CMS Deadline Approaching for the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Data Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; CMS.gov)<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind you that the 2015 PQRS data submission deadlines are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EHR Direct or Data Submission Vendor <\/strong>(QRDA I or III) &#8211; <strong>3\/11\/16<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Qualified Clinical Data Registries<\/strong> (QCDRs) (QRDA III) &#8211; <strong>3<strong>\/11\/16<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group Practice Reporting Option (GPRO) Web Interface<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>3\/11\/16<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Qualified Registries<\/strong> (Registry XML)\u00a0 &#8211; <strong>3\/31\/16<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>QCDRs <\/strong>(QCDR XML) &#8211; <strong>3\/31\/16<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For each deadline listed above, the submission ends at <strong>8:00 p.m. Eastern Time <\/strong>(ET). CMS encourages organizations to submit data well <em>in advance<\/em> of 8:00 p.m. ET to ensure it is fully submitted before the submission period closes.<\/p>\n<p>An Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) account with the \u201cSubmitter Role\u201d is required for these PQRS data submission methods. For additional information, please review the <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMzA5LjU2MjU2ODUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDMwOS41NjI1Njg1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3NjI2NjI0JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2hhZmVyQGFtYWMudXMmdXNlcmlkPWdoYWZlckBhbWFjLnVzJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments\/PQRS\/Downloads\/TheEIDMSystemToolkit.pdf\">EIDM System Toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible professionals who do not satisfactorily report quality measure data to meet the 2015 PQRS requirements will be subject to a negative PQRS payment adjustment on all Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) services rendered in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, please contact the QualityNet Help Desk at 1-866-288-8912 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Central Time or via e-mail at <a href=\"mailto:Qnetsupport@hcqis.org\">Qnetsupport@hcqis.org<\/a>. Complete information about PQRS is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYwMzA5LjU2MjU2ODUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MDMwOS41NjI1Njg1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3NjI2NjI0JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2hhZmVyQGFtYWMudXMmdXNlcmlkPWdoYWZlckBhbWFjLnVzJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments\/PQRS\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments\/PQRS\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The links\u00a0provided above connect readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for these links are valid\u00a0\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the links&#8217; validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; CMS.gov) The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind you that the 2015 PQRS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}