Upcoming 5.2 App Updates

Dear Valued Clients: We are releasing the 5.2 gGastro® Mobile for iOS and Android apps as well as the 5.2 gKiosk™ apps to their respective app stores. Please note: These apps will be required for gGastro 5.2, but will support versions as far back as 4.72, so we encourage you to update your apps once available. If you're not able…

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Patient Safety Alert: Update: Surescripts: Potential Inaccurate Medication History Data

Dear Valued Clients: This is an important follow-up patient safety message impacting a subset of gGastro® clients. We are writing to inform you that Surescripts has provided an update regarding an issue it initially reported in September 2021 and October 2021, involving possible inaccurate medication history data sent from three pharmacy data sources. Surescripts previously determined that some medication history response…

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MIPS – Performance Year 2021: Data Submission FAQs

COVID-19 and 2021 Participation As announced through the QPP Listserv on 11/10/2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to provide relief where possible to clinicians responding to the 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE). We’re applying the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to all individually MIPS eligible clinicians for…

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Limited Support Staff Availability — January 24–25, 2022 Beginning at 11:45 AM Eastern Time

In order for our Customer Success associates to attend our 2022 Annual Kickoff company meeting, all Customer Success departments, including Support, will be unavailable Monday, January 24 and Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from 11:45 AM until approximately 5:00 PM Eastern Time each day.Please submit your Support requests via modmed® Communities for gGastro® or email at gSupport@modmed.com during this time. We plan to have limited…

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CMS Change to 2021 MIPS Performance Measures Calculation

On December 30, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released changes which impacted the following MIPS Quality Measures (QM) for the 2021 Performance Period: QM111 — Pneumococcal Vaccination Status for Older Adults. QM128 — Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow-Up Plan. Measure Truncated QM111 — Pneumococcal Vaccination Status for Older Adults: CMS…

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Reminder: ON PREMISE SERVER Clients: gGastro® Timeframe Reminders

For clients that host their own installations outside of our gGastro® Cloud environment. This serves as important reminders on upcoming software deprecations. Please share this with your IT Administrator and plan your upgrade pathway accordingly. Please note the following 2022 upcoming changes: As of March 31, 2022, ModMed Gastroenterology will support only gGastro® version 5.X or higher. As of gGastro®…

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Multiple Payer ERA Delay – ON GOING

EDIinsight, by Waystar, received the following notification regarding ERA delays. No Support tickets for these check dates are needed at this time as the ERAs will be posted as soon as they are made available. Availity is aware of an issue where 835 files for various payers are missing due to a file formatting issue. If you are missing 835…

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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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