QBS and HIPAA Compliance
At Quality Billing Solutions (QBS), all aspects of legal compliance are very important to us, and full HIPAA compliance is a top QBS priority. QBS is proud of the fact that we have never missed or failed to make a governmentally required change in our application software, and maintaining and achieving HIPAA compliance has been no different.
All QBS, application software modules which are required to comply with HIPAA regulations are fully HIPAA-compliant, and as per long standing QBS policy, all QBS application software updates - including governmentally required changes such as HIPAA - are made available to our clients at no additional cost.*
In addition to our application software, please be aware that QBS as a company is also HIPAA compliant. All appropriate QBS personnel have been trained by certified HIPAA experts and attorneys regarding the safeguarding of our clients’ patient data. This training is held on an ongoing basis to ensure that QBS employees are aware of the latest HIPAA requirements. QBS also maintains two on-staff HIPAA Privacy Officers to ensure that proper QBS internal procedures and practices are maintained with regard to HIPAA, and HIPAA Business Partner Agreements and Privacy Statements are provided to our clients.
QBS prides itself on being at the forefront of medical practice management and electronic medical records technology solutions, providing the finest in software, hardware, training, service, and support to any practice size and specialty.
Please contact us for more information on QBS and the solutions we can provide to your practice.
*QBS clients having a current Telephone Support and Software Updates Agreement receive at no additional cost all QBS application software enhancements for the Modules currently being used by the practice. As well, all governmentally required changes such as HIPAA, Medicare/Medicaid format changes, etc. are also provided to such clients at no additional cost as part of having a current Telephone Support and Software Updates Agreement.
QBS and PQRI Compliance
Quality Billing Solutions provides integrated support for Medicare's Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) in its medical practice automation solutions. This built-in functionality makes it very easy for medical practices to increase Medicare reimbursements by up to 1.5%.
PQRI, which is also referred to as "pay for performance," is program developed by CMS (Medicare) as a way of having medical practices report more detail on patient progress and outcomes simply by utilizing their practice management software as the vehicle for providing this enhanced data.
The benefit to practices adding PQRI codes to their submissions is that Medicare will pay up to an additional 1.5% of amounts reimbursed back to practices from the earliest PQRI starting date of July 1, 2007. Medicare will remit the additional amount to practices as a lump sum payment sometime during the month of July, 2008.
PQRI is a purely voluntary program. However, with the usage of PQRI codes integrated into QBS' systems, medical practices using the PQRI-compliant software will be able to easily derive the additional reimbursements.
Quality Billing Solutions is providing the PQRI functionality to new and existing users of its software at no additional cost.
For more information about PQRI and how to use PQRI codes, please refer to: www.cms.hhs.gov/pqri.
