The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it has extended the March 13 submission deadline for 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) data submission for the electronic health record (EHR) reporting mechanism of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program.

Individual eligible professionals, PQRS group practices, qualified clinical data registries and qualified EHR data submission vendors now have until March 31 to electronically report 2016 EHR electronic clinical quality measures for the Medicare EHR incentive program via QRDA. CMS reaffirmed that all other deadlines remained unchanged.

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