PQRS is a Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) reporting program that uses a combination of incentive payments and negative payment adjustments to promote reporting of quality information by eligible professionals (EPs) - that's you, the physician.
The Attorney General will return $10,750 in salary, and the Secretary of State will donate $9,175 to a charity for his department's employees.
The attorney general is directly elected in 43 states. The attorney general is appointed by the state Legislature in Maine, by the state Supreme Court in Tennessee, and by the governor in the remaining five states. Partisan affiliation There are currently 27 Republican attorneys general, 20 Democratic attorneys general, one independent attorney general, and two nonpartisan attorneys general.