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Feeling the Quality Payment Program Pinch? We Can Help
As I work with practices, I am finding fear. I hear “It’s too late in the year.” “I can’t do anything.” ” I don’t have an EHR!” “There are too many things to keep up with!” Here is what I can say to...
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Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule Offers Advancing Care Information...
On June 20, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for the Quality Payment Program. At a whopping 1,058 pages long, this proposed rule provides updates...
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Important Changes Coming to Quality Payment Program in 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the proposed rule for the Quality Payment Program for 2018. We’ve read the 1,000+ pages, so you don’t have to, and some big...
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Six Popular MIPS Myths Debunked
First things first, let’s get a few acronyms straight. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) created the Quality Payment Program, which addresses two tracks: Advanced...
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Reporting MIPS as a Group
A group is defined as a single Tax Identification Number (TIN) with two or more Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) clinicians. A group is required to aggregate their performance data across...
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Understanding Inverse Measures
During some of my meetings with healthcare professionals and office managers, there are numerous questions and misconceptions in understanding an Inverse Measure. In this blog, I will provide an...
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First-Time Participants Have Until October 1, 2017 to Avoid the 2018 Payment...
Did you know first-time participants this year can avoid the 2018 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Payment adjustment with participation in the Advancing Care Information (ACI) portion in 2017?...
View ArticleHalf of Healthcare Professionals Not Yet Familiar with MACRA
Qsource, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved contractor in Alabama and Tennessee providing technical assistance to small, underserved practices, and rural practices, was not...
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It’s Not Too Late to Participate in MIPS
Don’t worry. It’s not too late! You still have a chance to participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) of the Quality Payment Program and avoid the 4 percent penalty in 2019. This...
View ArticleExploring Visitor Management in Healthcare Facilities during COVID-19
Preventing the spread of COVID-19 has brought on new challenges during this pandemic of trying to see loved ones living or rehabilitating at a healthcare facility. Visitors are learning first-hand how...
View ArticleTaking a Lesson to Heart
If you’re like me and almost everyone else in the US, you almost certainly have a family history of heart disease. It’s almost inevitable. It is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the...
View ArticleRemote Monitoring Keeping Patients Safe during COVID-19
When COVID-19 crashed into everyone’s reality, the way care is provided changed — rapidly. While the rest of the world was busy trying to flatten the curve, Deaconess Health System was ahead of the...
View ArticleNew Resource to Protect NH Residents Against COVID19
Trump Administration Announces New Resources to Protect Nursing Home Residents Against COVID-19 As part of the unprecedented efforts taken by the Trump Administration, President Trump today announced...
View ArticleQPP MIPS Performance Feedback and Final Score
2019 MIPS Performance Feedback and Final Score The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) has released 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance feedback and final...
View ArticleQPP 2019 MIPS Targeted Review
2019 MIPS Targeted Review If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2019, you can now review your performance feedback, including your MIPS final score and payment...
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QPP: Is It Time to Join an Alternative Payment Model
Is it Time to Join an Alternative Payment Model? Have you been participating successfully in the Merit-based Incentive Program (MIPS). Possibly it is a good time to investigate joining an Alternative...
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Oct. 5 is Deadline to Submit MIPS Targeted Review Requests If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2019, your performance feedback, including your MIPS final score and...
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Mindful Minute: Mental Health Is Important COVID-19 has shaken the world up, just as you would a snow globe. Lives have been impacted beyond what many can begin to fathom. The new realities of working...
View ArticleMillion Hearts HTN Change Package
If you want to help patients control their hypertension, it starts with YOU making hypertension control a practice or system priority and committing to making a change in your patients’ healthcare and...
View ArticleHow To Bring It Home at The End of the Performance Year
How to bring it home at the end of the performance year! We are coming into the home stretch of the MIPS performance period. Let’s talk about all of the things to button up for 2020 so you are ready...
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