News in brief Deadline March 17: Discount available for PQRSWizard AOA members can receive a discount on PQRSWizard, a PQRS Qualified Registry. Feb. 24, 2017Friday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email If you are eligible to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and you don’t satisfactorily report data on quality measures from the 2016 program year, you may be subject to a 2% payment adjustment of your Physician Fee Schedule charges beginning in 2018. The AOA CAP for PQRS registry, AOA’s standalone registry, is no longer available. However, AOA members can receive a discount on PQRSWizard, a PQRS Qualified Registry. The cost to participate in the PQRSWizard is $199 for AOA members/$299 for nonmembers. The PQRSWizard registry closes March 17, 2017, at 5 p.m. ET. All data for the 2016 reporting period must be submitted by that deadline. Visit www.osteopathic.org/pqrs for more information or contact [email protected]. More in Newsbriefs DO to lead Mississippi physician workforce office, DO student co-authors educational children’s book Richard Calderone, DO, MPH, is the new director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, and Brooke Birks, OMS IV, published a children’s book. Free holistic residency application review platform will soon be available for residency programs that use ERAS Cortex, an AI-enabled platform, is designed to provide technology-assisted holistic review by streamlining application screening and review. Previous articleUp to $25,000 in research grants available for students and residents Next articleHow to break bad news to patients: Experts offer best practices
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Free holistic residency application review platform will soon be available for residency programs that use ERAS Cortex, an AI-enabled platform, is designed to provide technology-assisted holistic review by streamlining application screening and review.