Monthly gGastro® Cloud Maintenance Reminder — December 18, 2021

This is a reminder for the gGastro® Cloud monthly maintenance window. SCHEDULED: Saturday, December 18, 2021, between 12:00 AM – 6:00 AM Eastern Time APPLICATION IMPACT: All services will be potentially unavailable for the duration of the updates. MAINTENANCE DESCRIPTION: A maintenance window is required in order to apply mandatory security updates to our systems. This work is expected to…

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Noridian currently reporting connectivity issues, impacting the submission of 837 EDI files, response files, and 835 ERA files.

Noridian is currently reporting connectivity issues that are impacting the submission of 837 EDI files, response files, and 835 ERA files. Noridian is working to resolve and apologizes for the inconvenience. This issue will delay the submission of claims and retrieval of response files (including 835/Remit files). We will submit all outstanding claims and download responses as soon as this…

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Update: Limited Functionality: Taking Payments — Tuesday, December 7, 2021

As a follow-up to our previous communication regarding limited functionality involving taking payments, we are writing to inform you that we are pending confirmation from our third-party hosting vendor if the primary cause of the outage has been resolved. However, in our system, error rates have reduced and successful transaction processing is normalizing. What We Are Doing: Our engineering team…

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Retrieving patient signature from an unlocked consent form.

Presented By ModMed® Training Team  

Unlocking thumbnails allows you to add information to a previously completed note, but it also removes ALL of the signatures. That includes the patient’s signature on consent forms signed in gKiosk™. But don’t worry – gGastro® stores a snapshot of the consent with the patient’s signature. Follow these steps to see how you can retrieve it.

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Issue Identified and Resolved: Patients Unable to Use gPortal™

We are writing to inform you that we identified and resolved an issue on Monday, November 29, 2021, in which patients may have been unable to access gPortal™ due to an alert informing them that the date of birth (DOB) they entered was invalid. This issue affected various gGastro® 5.0 versions. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused…

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MIPS UPDATE – Final Rule for the 2022 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Released.

On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule for the 2022 Quality Payment Program (QPP). Below is a summary of some of the 2022 Performance Year (PY) QPP Final Rule changes and updates: Traditional Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Performance Thresholds 75 points to avoid a potential -9% penalty in 2024…

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CMS Announces Updates to 2021 MIPS Automatic Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy

Dear Valued Clients: We are writing to inform you that on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced updates to its 2021 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Automatic Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Policy due to the 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic public health emergency (PHE). According to CMS, “Due to the continuing effects of the…

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REMINDER On-Prem Clients: Upgrade to gGastro® v.5.0 if you’re planning to submit data for 2021 MIPS.

For those clients who host their own installations outside of our gGastro® Cloud environment, and who plan to submit data for MIPS 2021, this serves as an important reminder. The MIPS reporting period begins January 1, 2022 and runs through March 31, 2022. As previously communicated, if you participate in MIPS (specifically in Promoting Interoperability and/or Electronic Clinical Quality Measures), you should plan to…

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