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CMS Pub. 100-22, ch. 3, § 20.1
PQRS Remittance Instructions
The paper remit for PQRS payments are to have the following explanatory message: “This is a PQRS
incentive payment.” The Medicare contractors have the ability to revise and/or update this message when
CMS deems necessary.
The PLB 03-1 segment of the outgoing electronic remittance will be annotated with “LE”. The incentive
type year indicator from the header record of the PQRS payment file will be used to populate the PLB 03-2
segment of the outgoing remittance notice. For example: The incentive type year indicator from the header
record of the 2010 PQRS payment file was PQ10. Therefore, PQ10 was used to populate the PLB 03-2
segment of the outgoing remittance notice. (See CR 6559 for more information.)
History
(Rev. 11, Issued: 03-26-13, Effective: 06-25-12, Implementation: 06-25-12)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
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