ODs Get More Than $3 Million from PQRS

The Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) issued more than $3 million in incentive payments to optometrists during 2010, according to latest in a series of reports on the program from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Nearly one in 10 (9.9 percent) optometrists who saw Medicare patients during 2010 earned a PQRS quality bonus, according to the CMS. Read more.