NextGen Releases Premier Data Capture Tools for Federal Pay-For-Performance Efforts.

HORSHAM, Pa. -- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSII), today announced it has released its data capture tools to help physician practices prepare for federal Pay-For-Performance (P4P) efforts - the Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative

The first of the two programs is the Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). Through this initiative, eligible physicians who successfully report a designated set of quality measures on claims for dates of service July 1 to December 31, 2007, earn a bonus payment, up to an allowable maximum amount of 1.5 percent of total charges for covered Medicare physician services. Participating physician practices must use data from bills submitted for each patient encounter, the capture of which is facilitated by the use of the NextGen EMR and NextGen EPM systems. The company has leveraged the capabilities of its integrated systems to support an accurate, comprehensive capture of all PQRI data elements.

Practices such as Med Allies (Hudson Valley Region of NY State), PMA Medical Specialists (Phoenixville, PA), and Adult Medicine of Marietta, P.C. (Marietta, GA) are currently working with NextGen to streamline PQRI data submissions. At the heart of this effort are NextGen's clinical templates, which include mapping to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Doctor's Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) quality indicators built into the NextGen Electronic Medical Records (EMR) disease management protocols. Completed in June 2006, this effort earned the Company DOQ-IT approval, which only six healthcare IT vendors hold today.

NextGen Healthcare has been developing this data capture methodology since the start of the DOQ-IT programs and has created a tool that allows providers using the NextGen EMR and NextGen Enterprise Practice Management (EPM) systems to gather the proper information in the normal course of clinical documentation. The physician can also enhance ongoing program compliance by developing data feedback reports (as part of the NextGen solution) for review in advance of governmental response.