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 pqrs@osteopathic.org. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. 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
TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana.
“Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts.