Emil Engels, MD, MBA, CPC
‘If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.’—Yogi Berra
Confusion surrounds quality reporting for anesthesia providers. The use of acronyms by the government, such as PQRS, MAV, VM, QRUR, QCDR, MACRA and MIPS, only adds to the problem. The “alphabet soup” of government quality programs is bewildering and complex, and even experienced policy wonks