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Dear Valued Clients: As you may already be aware, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced a $0.03 rate increase on postage. In response to the USPS increase, clearinghouse costs for Patient Statements and Paper Claims will accordingly increase $0.03. Effective Friday, October 1, 2021, the new pricing will be $0.74 per first page of Patient Statements, and $0.58…
This is an important patient safety message regarding prescription “follow-up” refill requests impacting our Modernizing Medicine Gastroenterology clients. With the update to the Script2017 standard of ePrescribing, implemented in gGastro® v. 4.71, pharmacies now have the ability to send follow up refill requests to our Modernizing Medicine Gastroenterology clients. In rare instances, when a provider using gGastro® responds to a…
Our team has been made aware of the following issue impacting certain gGastro® clients on v. 4.72 or higher, experienced in connection with the 2021 E/M Coding Advisor. Our engineers are working to address this issue and we expect to resolve the issue with the upcoming release (v. 4.72.1.5), anticipated to be released at the end of January, 2021. In…
We're glad we caught your attention! Please review this checklist BEFORE January 4th to make sure that you and your practice are ready for the the 2021 E/M Changes coming January 1, 2021. Click here to view the checklist
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, that should be taken by…
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 to our suggested coding function…
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 an updated list of eCQMs…
Upcoming deadlines that could impact workflows If you are already running gGastro® v. 4.70, or a later version, then there is no action required on your part. We are reaching out to inform you of important deadlines that may require modifications to the configuration of your workstations and/or upgrading gGastro® to the latest version. Please take a moment to review…
The most recent guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) specify that billing codes should be generated based on pathology confirmation diagnoses, which is not often available at the time of the service. gGastro is updated to generate billing codes within the Coding Advisor in accordance this latest CMS…
gEstimator is a gPM feature intended to assist practices and patients better understand the expected cost of a service, before the service is provided. This feature works directly with the clearinghouse to obtain real-time patient eligibility for the specific procedure(s) that will be performed, for the specific service location and provider who performing the service. Please contact the Modernizing…