Post Your Insurance Payments with LESS CLICKS!

Benefit: When posting insurance payments with many patients, you can press Control and Enter on your keyboard to select the next patient, without having your hands leave the keyboard! This may help you move through an EOB faster.   Step 1 Within an insurance payment, when you are ready to apply money to the next

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Telehealth Encounters and 2020 MIPS eCQM Reporting

Telehealth Encounters and 2020 MIPS eCQM Reporting Dear Valued Clients: CMS has released new guidance on telehealth encounters for eligible clinicians who submit MIPS data using eCQMs for the 2020 performance period.  The telehealth guidance document is available on the eCQI Resource Center for Eligible Clinicians under the 2020 Reporting/Performance Year. CMS’s guidance on telehealth encounters includes

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ICD-10 Code Updates Take Effect on October 1, 2020

ICD-10 Code Updates Take Effect on October 1, 2020 Please be advised that CMS has released the 2021 ICD-10 codes to be used for discharges and patient encounters occurring between October 1, 2020 and September 30, 2021.  The 2021 updates to ICD-10 codes will take effect on Thursday, October 1, 2020. We plan for the

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MIPS Targeted Review

MIPS Targeted Review If you submitted MIPS data for the 2019 performance period, you can now review your performance feedback, including your MIPS final score and payment adjustment information, on the Quality Payment Program website. Your final score will dictate the payment adjustment you will receive in 2021, with a positive, negative, or neutral payment adjustment

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Discharge Instructions: Automatically Display Endoscopist Contact Info

Benefit: By default, the GI Discharge Instructions template includes the section “Provider Emergency Contact.”  Ensure that the office phone number is configured for the endoscopist on the service note, and it will default on the discharge instructions.  Now, if the patient, or their caretaker, have any questions or concerns after their procedure, they have the

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MIPS UPDATE: Test Your QPP Website Access

Test Your QPP Website Access Test Your QPP Website Access The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that it plans to increase network security requirements applicable to the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website and related systems in the fall of 2020.  As a result of this change, if your browser does not

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Track Your Financials with Cost Centers

Benefit: With multiple locations and providers in your practice, you can better track your financials with cost centers. Follow modmed® Gastroenterology’s best practices to get the most out of this feature. Example 1 Dr. Jane Smith works at the North Office in February, and at the Downtown Office in March. Cost Center 1: Dr. Jane

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Alaska PDMP Update: Impacts to clients residing in AK

Please see below a message from Appriss Health regarding Alaska Provider Authorizations – July 30, 2020 Please review this email carefully.  Failure to follow this protocol could result in a rejection when attempting to access the Alaska Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (AK PDMP) via PMP Gateway. The State of Alaska plans to implement the Provider Authorization function, which

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