Physician specialists have more reporting measures for Medicare bonuses in 2017 – Orthopedists rank No. 1 with 62

A recent Avalere report finds physician specialists now have more than 700 measures available for reporting under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System through Qualified Clinical Data Registries.

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In June, CMS released the 2017 Qualified Clinical Data Registry, including 113 total registries compared to the 69 approved registries in 2016. The increase in QCDRs makes 478 more measures available, bringing the total to over 700.

 

Here are the numbers of measures available for reporting by specialty.

 

2 MIPS QCDR measures speciality areas

 

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