Complete Your Tasks Anywhere with gGastro® Mobile!

Benefit: gGastro® Mobile allows you to monitor tasks on your iPhone or Android as you navigate your busy schedule. This allows you to respond to requests, and even review or sign results and documents more timely.    Step 1 Log into gGastro® Mobile and tap “My Tasks.” Step 2 Open the task, read the message,

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Patient Safety Alert: Inaccurate Medication History (PPSI-3 Surescripts)

A notice from Surescripts We recently received a message from our vendor, Surescripts, notifying us of a potential patient safety issue related to possible inaccuracies in Medication History response messages. As we utilize the Medication History from Surescripts in gGastro®, via our connection with Dr. First, please see below the information, along with next steps,

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Informative Webinar – 2021 E/M Changes Effective January 1, 2021

Modernizing Medicine Gastroenterology has developed and will be implementing updates to our systems to help provide the tools you need to navigate the changing rules in relationship to the 2021 E/M changes effective January 1, 2021. In order to assist your practice in adjusting to these changes, Modernizing Medicine has made a number of important updates

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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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