"Welcome to our company blog. Within these blog posts, we hope to share our insights on clinical quality management, the patient-centered medical home, chronic disease management in primary care, evidence-based medicine, and the use of technology in ambulatory care settings."

- David Morin, CEO and Donald Nease Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer

I'm going to go out on a limb here and comment on a request we hear often:

"can we just use your registry to upload to CMS to get our PQRI money?"

Answer: yes, you can.

But, think about this. If you do the minimum 30 chart pulls, abstract the data, key it in and upload it, you're probably looking at about a $1,000 expense. And, I haven't budgeted for the software yet.

The average reimbursement from PQRI is $600.

Your and your staff's time is VERY expensive, and valuable.

Is this really the way you want to invest your time and money?

Now, if you use a clinical quality management system to manage all your patients for all their needs, you not only get PQRI $$s, you get the value of any other pay-for-performance program, you build the base for your patient-centered medical home, and you prepare yourself for any other quality program that comes in the future. Your patients are better cared for, your practice is operating more efficiently and you may just be generating more revenue in your practice as you keep your patients up to date on their screening, prevention and chronic disease management needs.

Shortcuts sound great, but they unfortunately don't work. And, in this case, I think they actually cost you more than doing things the right way.

Dave Morin
CEO and Co-Founder
Cielo MedSolutions LLC