We’ve all been hearing about the 4th category in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) but many physicians and administrators haven’t given it much thought because it had no impact on the final MIPS score. Here’s a breakdown to prepare you for this year’s new Cost category. The cost category is 10% of a clinician’s [...]
3 Tips to Mastering MIPS Secure Messaging The secure messaging measure is a fairly new measure in the EHR Incentive Payment program and is the measure that seems to give clinicians the most trouble throughout the reporting year. Secure messaging is not required for the MIPS base score in 2018 but it is a measure [...]
The c-suite is gaining another member in the healthcare, the Chief Experience Officer (CXO). Over the last 10 years, the healthcare industry has started to see patients as consumers. Patients have started shopping around for physicians like they do for other products. The CXO focuses on enterprise-wide patient experience improvement and quality of care to [...]
2018 CMS MIPS Eligibility Tool Last week CMS announced they have updated the MIPS Participation Lookup Tool so clinicians can check if they are required to participate in the 2018 MIPS performance year. The tool also includes all changes to the MIPS program set forth by the Bipartisan Budget Act. Next Steps Head over to [...]
If you’ve been in the Meaningful Use and MIPS game for a bit or if you’re just joining the party, you most-likely know the pain that is the Patient Portal: View, Download, Transmit measure. So, let’s tackle this measure head on with some workflows that have proven to be successful with other practice. Now, if [...]
The transition years for MIPS has been extended through 2021 thanks to the enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. Along with the extension of the transition years there are changes that apply to the 2018 MIPS performance year. THE CHANGES Post-transition begins in 2022, not 2019 MIPS performance threshold must be the mean [...]
The end of 2017 means we have all (almost) survived our first year of MIPS reporting! Not so bad, right? Monitoring measure reports throughout the reporting period is only ½ the battle. Now is the time to make sure you have all of the necessary documentation in a safe place in case the future brings [...]
A new law in Illinois requires all providers with a controlled substance license to enroll in the prescription monitoring program by January 1, 2018. You can read a summary of the law here. Let’s talk a little bit about the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program. It’s an electric tool that collects information on controlled substance prescriptions. [...]
Health Information Exchanges (HIE) took the health care world by storm a few years ago and professionals have been trying to find the workflow that makes the most sense. For all of my NextGen users, this is your NextGen Share. I know we all have had our fair share of battles this with workflow, since [...]
Oh, MIPS.. we meet again. I have kind of a love/hate relationship with this program. At some points it’s awesome because it combines all of the incentive programs administrators and providers had to keep track of for the past 6 years. On the other side, I hate it because it takes so much time to [...]
