Two years ago, the American Medical Association (AMA) created a committee to provide recommendations on how to improve the usability of electronic health records (EHR). Their list outlined eight areas where improvements were needed to stop the disruption that resulted from the Meaningful Use EHR requirement. It’s time to revisit how EHR systems are doing … Continued
Meaningful Use is not ending Are you meeting Objective #10: Public Health & Clinical Data Registry Reporting? If you’re not submitting to your registries, or in testing and validation with your registries, to meet the Public Health Reporting objective for 2016, in applicable states, you must complete registration to submit data no later than February … Continued
Get Solutions to Common ICD-10 Transition Sticking Points During this presentation, we’ll smooth over the rough areas of your practice’s transition to ICD-10. You’ll get remedies for some of the most common ICD-10 transition problems. In this webinar, we’ll touch on the ICD-10 coding conundrum, capturing more practice productivity, and preventing rejected claim rates from … Continued
#1 Favorite download Best Practices to Improve Patient Payments Regardless of geography, demographics or patient income, balance collections are in a sorry state for most small practices. In fact, private practices are now among the largest unsecured credit grantors in the country. How did we get to this point? As the money from insurance companies … Continued
ePrescribing controlled substances has never been easier During this presentation, you’ll learn how AdvancedMD makes prescribing controlled substances fast, simple, and affordable with AdvancedEPCS. In this webinar, we’ll touch on a wide variety of topics including patient safety, controlling prescription fraud and abuse and reducing prescription errors.
There are 10 objectives to be carried out by Eligible Professionals (EPs) – those held accountable through CMS to demonstrate meaningful use of EHR technology. Here are the objectives to successfully demonstrate Meaningful Use for 2015 through 2017 reporting years: 1. Protect Patient Health Information: The healthcare industry has been the target of cybercriminals in … Continued
The EHR Incentive Programs in 2015 through 2017 (Modified Stage 2) reflect changes to the objectives and measures of Stages 1 and 2 to align with Stage 3, which focuses on the advanced use of EHRs. The changes also aim to reduce the complexity of the program and work toward a shift to a single … Continued
CMS recently published a final rule that specifies criteria that eligible professionals (EPs) must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. In the final rule, CMS has modified the EHR Incentive Program for the 2015-2017 reporting years. To simplify the program, all EPs will be reporting on Modified Stage … Continued
Overcoding a visit puts you at risk for a RAC audit and undercoding leaves money on the table. Spend 60 seconds to learn how AdvancedInsight lets you create easy-to-read charts and vertical multipliers so you can understand coding patterns, increase reimbursement per visit, and prevent coding audits.
The only thing that may be more stressful than selecting your first EHR system is selecting a replacement EHR. Many practices are finding that their first EHR system lacked the functionality and vendor support to help them meet Meaningful Use requirements, prepare for ICD-10 and streamline workflow. Although EHR shopping can seem daunting, providers can’t … Continued
As of November 1, 2014, only 2% of eligible professionals had attested to Meaningful Use 2. This is not good news for the thousands of independent physician practices that rely on Medicare payments: the Center for Medicare Services is slated to hand out 1% penalties this year for MU2 slackers—which is estimated to total $1.15B. … Continued
Fueled by patient demands and the convenience of technology, the need to get patients involved in their own health management, and giving them a convenient platform to do so, is important. Providing a platform for patient access is the most important step to encourage engagement.
Jed Shay, MD
The Pain Care Center
Keith Berkowitz, MD
Center for Balanced Health
Estaban Lavato, MD
La Loma Medical Center
Raju Raval, MD
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