Physician Offices
Physician office practices are seeing increasingly more chronically ill and acutely ill patients. Worries about managing malpractice risk, sustaining revenues and maintaining staff and patient satisfaction leave little time at the end of the day. You're in business to keep people healthy and save lives - we're in the business to help you!
What's New?Welcome to Medicare (WTM)As part of Medicare's movement towards increasing access to preventive measures, the Welcome to Medicare Visit was created for people newly enrolled in Medicare. Learn more about WTM. Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)PQRI establishes a financial incentive for eligible professionals to participate in a voluntary quality reporting program. CMS offers more information on their PQRI Web page. Pandemic Influenza ResourcesThe Missouri Dept. of Health and Senior Services has information online about Human Pandemic Influenza and Avian Influenza. Part D: Medication Therapy ManagementSome of your patients may be contacted by their Medicare Part D plan about Medication Therapy Management (MTM). Here's what you need to know about MTM.
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Primaris quality improvement professionals provide on-site consultation and products designed to improve office efficiency, increase revenue, enhance patient satisfaction and help you to provide quality care in less time. Our staff understands how offices function and that you need proven effective methods to achieve desired results. We'll show you how small changes turn into big improvements and how you can earn free CME credits as well.
For additional physician office resources, visit www.medqic.org. MedQIC is the Medicare Quality Improvement Community, a Web-based resource created and supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its Medicare National Quality Improvement Priorities.
Learn more about our QI Projects
Interested in culturally appropriate care and up to nine free, online CMEs? Contact culturalpro@primaris.org.
Primaris is also working on a project with select physician offices to implement electronic health records. If you would like more information about this project, contact ehr@primaris.org.
Past Quality Improvement Projects
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Diabetes
Immunizations
Smoking Cessation
Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) information! (Formerly PVRP)
Missouri Outpatient Rapid Evaluation (MORE) System
This system provides a one-page information collection
record that can be completed by your patient in the reception
area. After validating the information recorded by the patient,
the office staff can fax this form to Primaris where
the data is entered into a software system. Reports can
be generated for each physician on key quality indicators
such as the number of patients receiving a mammogram or
flu shot. Each physician receives a comparative report quarterly
to assist in measuring improvements. The reports are confidential
and the data is not released to anyone other than the physician.