MEDICARE QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE PAYS OVER $36 MILLION TO...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......other PQRI eligible professionals should receive...and other eligible professionals are able to...and other eligible professionals met statutory...receiving incentive payments. The 2007...the highest incentive payments for the 2007...measures. All ...

QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE WILL HELP IMPROVE HEALTH CARE FOR...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ......and other eligible professionals to take part...easier for eligible professionals to participate...2007 PQRI, eligible professionals who satisfactorily...transitional bonus incentive payments in 2008...qualify for an incentive payment. Participating ...

MEDICARE ANNOUNCES MEASURE SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHYSICIAN QUALITY REPORTING...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 3, 2007 ;     422 words ......voluntary quality reporting program. Eligible professionals who successfully report data for...of July 1, 2007. This is to help eligible professionals to identify measures applicable...applicability of the measures to additional eligible professionals. The PQRI measures apply to ...

MEDICARE HOSTS NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO PROMOTE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ......physicians and other eligible professionals who meet federal requirements...and 2013 will receive incentive payments from Medicare. Under MIPPA...2013. Beginning in 2012, eligible professionals who are not successful...

Quality control

Dermatology Times;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......that provide eligible professionals with more...on which eligible professionals can report...other PQRI-eligible professionals should have...and other eligible professionals are able...to receive incentive payments for the entire...CMS says eligible ...

GPO deals still golden; compliance is the key.(Brief Article)

Hospital Materials Management;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......dollars, plus an equal amount in incentive payments, and the hospital has not even finished...have so far produced savings and incentive payments that this year will total more than...calculated. But he does know that incentive payments average $212,924 annually, and the...

Fed: AMA says bulk-billing incentive payments a disincentive

AAP General News (Australia);  February 13, 2003 ;     416 words ......AMA says bulk-billing incentive payments a disincentive By Sandra...CANBERRA, Feb 13 AAP - Incentive payments were an inconvenience for...start introducing more incentive payments, the only incentive it...

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES PROPOSES PAYMENT, POLICY CHANGES...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Initiative (PQRI) which allows eligible professionals to report quality measures...December 31, 2009) to provide eligible professions with additional...measures that will allow more eligible professionals to earn incentive payments in 2008 for submitting...methods for ...

FARMERS MAY APPLY NOW FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 15, 2006 ;     340 words ......concerns. EQIP provides farmers with incentive payments for conservation activities that...will be required to qualify for incentive payments for pasture type practices on grazing...the ranking tool and to apply for incentive payments for waste storage structures." "It...

Fed: Patterson says govt remains committed to bulk billing

AAP General News (Australia);  May 21, 2002 ;     287 words ......committed to bulk-billing, increases in incentive payments were providing better health results...government payments made to GPs. She said incentive payments, rather than a small increase across...provide better outcomes. When we put incentive payments in for immunising children, we ...

Keating signs bill with Quality Jobs changes

The Journal Record;  June 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ......for a second round of Quality Jobs incentive payments. Senate Bill 782, by Sen. Ted Fisher...business can apply for additional incentive payments based upon the gross payroll anticipated...apply for additional Quality Jobs incentive payments. This portion of the bill affects...

Dealers Prevail on Incentive Pay Withholding Issue, NADA Says.

PR Newswire;  October 28, 1998 ;     269 words ......withhold taxes from manufacturer incentive payments paid to dealer personnel. NADA is...Paul Holloway. Treating manufacturer incentive payments as employee wages would have imposed...The decision by the IRS to treat incentive payments as miscellaneous income is the proper...

21 states' adoption efforts rewarded; Texas gets most incentive...

The Washington Times;  September 10, 2006 ;     385 words ......Secretary Michael O. Leavitt said. Incentive payments were given to states that completed...receiving more than $4 million in incentive payments, while Arizona and Tennessee each...permanent home. While the adoption incentive payments, created in the 1997 Adoption and...

Unmet targets cost Coles Myer execs.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  November 2, 2005 ;     203 words ......Myer executives have received lower incentive payments this year after failing to meet some...Fletcher saw an almost $A1m drop in his incentive payments this year, resulting in a take-home...A2.68m, down from $A3.3m, with her incentive payments dropping from $A806,032 to $A377...

Quality Jobs incentive bill goes to governor

The Journal Record;  May 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ......a second helping of Quality Jobs incentive payments from a bill now on its way to the...would allow a business receiving incentive payments to apply for additional payments...business could apply for additional incentive payments based upon the gross payroll anticipated...