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.
About the Department. The Office of the Attorney General was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, sec. 35, 1 Stat. 73, 92-93), as a one-person part-time position. However, the workload quickly became too much for one person, necessitating the hiring of several assistants for the Attorney General.