Join MediSYS on January 23 at 11:00 AM CST for our Online Webinar – Reporting in the New Year! It may be a new year, but your reporting needs to be done just like you did last year! Let MediSYS guide you through daily/weekly reporting and A/R management to keep your office going full steam ahead throughout the year. Click here to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5397131342027161090
How does the government shutdown affect payment of your claims? In a tweet made by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shortly after the partial government shutdown began in December 2018, CMS stated, “CMS and its programs (including, but not limited to, @Medicaregov, @Medicaidgov and @Healthcaregov) are NOT affected by the partial gov’t shutdown.” This means that providers should not expect delays in Medicare and Medicaid claims processing and payment due to the shutdown,…
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Helping you put the MIPS pieces together each week! Improvement Activities: Tips ‘n’ Tricks We created a list of a few tips on the Improvement Activities performance category for 2017. Remember, the Improvement Activities category counts for 15% of your 2017 MIPS Performance score. Tips ‘n’ Tricks: The maximum score for the Improvement Activities (IA) category is 40. Each Improvement Activity is weighted differently and the weight determines the points that you will receive for completing the activity:…
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Helping you put the MIPS pieces together each week! Quality Measure 226 – Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention CMS made some changes to Quality Measure 226 and we have highlighted those changes below. Description: Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who were screened for tobacco use one or more times within 24 months AND who received cessation counseling intervention if identified as a tobacco user NEW DENOMINATOR/NUMERATOR CRITERIA…
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Helping you put the MIPS pieces together each week! MIPS Data Validation and Auditing CMS is required by the Quality Payment Program Final Rule with comment, to provide the criteria they will use to audit and validate measures and activities for the 2017 transition year of MIPS for all performance categories: Quality, Advancing Care Information and Improvement Activities. According to CMS, data validation is the process of ensuring that a program operates on accurate and useful data. MIPS…
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On June 20, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the PROPOSED RULE for the 2018 Quality Payment Program, which includes the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and alternative payment models (APMs) participation options and requirements. The Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) requires that the Quality Payment Program is reevaluated and updated annually. The proposed rule aims to simplify reporting requirements and offer support for doctors and clinicians…
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Helping you put the MIPS pieces together each week! Who is included in MIPS? In 2017, participation is easier than it has EVER been! You’re included in MIPS if you bill Medicare Part B more than $30,000 a year in allowable charges and provide care for more than 100 Medicare patients a year, and are a: Physician Physician assistant Nurse practitioner Clinical nurse specialist Certified registered nurse anesthetist ***First year Medicare Providers in 2017 are…
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Join us on October 6th for a FREE online MediSYS webinar! “Explore CareSync resources now available to help your practice meet the clinical and documentation requirements for the Medicare’s Chronic Care Management.” Benefits to your practice (typically for Family or Internal Medicine clinics with a high Medicare patient volume): Additional revenues (depending on the Final Rule in November, these revenues could increase in January with new codes for reimbursement on the horizon) Better patient care with…
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MediSYS offering Bi-Directional Interface with Clearwave Self-Service, Patient Kiosk Birmingham, AL – April 25, 2016, MediSYS for Physicians, Inc. is proud to announce that they have partnered with Clearwave to provide a bi-directional streamlined integration between MediSYS Practice Management software and Clearwave’s self-service, patient kiosk. MediSYS strives to offer the latest technology for medical practice management through interoperability partners who are the leader in their field. With Clearwave, clients are receiving state-of-the-art self-service patient registration…
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MediSYS is a PQRS/CQM Data Submission Vendor (DSV): FREE service offered to MediSYS EHR clients! As a Data Submission Vendor (DSV), MediSYS will gather clinical quality data from our 2014 Certified MediSYS EHR and submit this information on the provider’s behalf to CMS for the program year specified. While others vendors are charging extra fees for this service, MediSYS offers this service FREE to all MediSYS EHR clients participating in PQRS and also submitting CQMs…
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