Withdrawn and
continued per CMS request 7/29/10 to address technical issues with
the submission. OMB notes that CMS intends to resubmit shortly.
Prior terms remain in effect: Since the PQRI reporting requirements
tend to change annually with each annual physician fee rule, this
ICR is approved until January 2010. Because this ICR is associated
with rulemaking, CMS agrees to coordinate the publication of the 60
& 30 day Federal Register Notices with the issuance of the
proposed and final physician fee rule. In order to comment
meaningfully on the burden and utility of these reporting
requirements, the public needs access to all technical
specifications on how each performance measure will be calculated
(e.g. the denominators and numerators). Therefore, all such
technical specifications need to be submitted with the ICR in order
for the ICR package to be considered complete. These technical
specifications must also match up with the year in question (i.e.
the 2008 specifications should not be submitted for the 2009
measures). Incomplete submissions will be returned to the agency as
"improper submissions." Finally, CMS agrees to include this ICR in
the next ICB as a "bootleg" collection.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2010
36 Months From Approved
07/31/2010
8,787,000
0
8,787,000
1,125,935
0
1,125,935
0
0
0
The data on PQRI quality measures
and/or the electronic prescribing measure collected from eligible
professionals or group practices in 2010 will be used by CMS to:
(1) determine whether an eligible professional or group practice
meets the criteria for satisfactory reporting of quality measures
data for the 2010 PQRI and/or the criteria for successful
electronic prescribers for the 2010 E-Prescribing Incentive
Program, (2) to calculate and make incentive payments in 2010 to
eligible professionals and group practices who meet the criteria
for satisfactory reporting of quality measures data and/or eligible
professionals and group practices who are successful electronic
prescribers, and (3) publicly post the names of eligible
professionals and group practices who satisfactorily report PQRI
quality measures data and/or who are successful electronic
prescribers on the CMS Web site. The information collected from
registries through the registry self-nomination process will be
used by CMS to determine whether the registry meets the PQRI
registry requirements for 2010 and is qualified to submit quality
measures results and numerator and denominator data on PQRI
individual quality measures, measures groups, and the electronic
prescribing measure on behalf of eligible professionals. The
information collected from EHR vendors through the EHR
self-nomination process will be used by CMS to determine whether
the vendor's EHR product(s) meet the PQRI EHR requirements for 2010
and can be designated as qualified for the purpose of an eligible
professional using clinical data extracted from the EHR to submit
data on a subset of the PQRI measures and the electronic
prescribing measure.
US Code:
42
USC 1395w-4 Name of Law: Payment for Physician' Services
PL:
Pub.L. 109 - 432 101 Name of Law: Tax Relief and Health Care
Act of 2006 - Medicare Improvements and Extension Act of 2006
The changes are due to the
following: o Original submission estimated $50/hour for practice
staff time. Due to increases in salary and fringes since 2006, new
estimate is $55/hour. o Original submission estimated that there
would be 101,000 individual eligible professionals participating in
the PQRI and E-Prescribing Incentive Program. Based on the final
number of eligible professionals who participated in the 2007 PQRI
and the assumption that all eligible professionals who participate
in PQRI will also participate in the E-Prescribing Incentive
Program, the new estimate is 110,000 individual eligible
professionals participating in both PQRI and the E-Prescribing
Incentive Program. o Original submission estimated 87 responses per
respondent with 27 PQRI responses and 60 E-Prescribing Incentive
Program responses. Due to changes in the criteria for being a
successful electronic prescriber in 2010, the new estimate is 70
responses per respondent, with 27 PQRI responses and 25
E-Prescribing Incentive Program responses. o As required by MIPPA,
we are implementing a group practice reporting option for the 2010
PQRI and E-Prescribing Incentive Program. Assuming that this new
statutory requirement does not have any impact on the number of
individual eligible professionals who choose to participate in PQRI
and/or the E-Prescribing Incentive Program, the revised submission
includes 200 additional respondents, 31,384 additional annual
burden hours, and $1,374,000 in additional annual burden cost for
these new statutory requirements. o We are including a new,
EHR-based reporting mechanism in the 2010 PQRI. The revised
submission includes burden estimates for EHR vendors associated
with the self-nomination process to have one or more their products
designated as a qualified EHR product. The revised submission also
includes burden estimates for registries associated with the
self-nomination process to be designated as a qualified
registry.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
CMS-10276.Supporting Statement Part B.doc
PQRI: E-Prescribing by Group Practices