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…
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…
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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When looking for a specific item within a service note, do you normally scroll from the top to the bottom until you find it? Well, not anymore! There is a FASTER way to find what you are looking for. Here is how.
On Friday, October 15, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its extension for reweighting requests for performance year (PY) 2020 under the Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstance (EUC) Exemption policy. Now through Monday, November 29, 2021 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time, CMS will allow clinicians, groups, virtual groups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities to request MIPS…
An important patient safety issue related to printing, faxing or exporting service documents from gGastro® has been identified. This issue occurs in gGastro® version 5.0 and beyond and does not impact earlier versions. We are working to resolve this issue and plan to deploy a permanent fix in a near future release. Documents that are faxed to recipients outside of…
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If your internet connection is down, or gGastro® is unavailable for some other reason, your procedures can continue as scheduled. With Disconnected Image Capture, you can capture images and store them until gGastro® becomes available. Then, securely import them into the patient’s service.
Please Note: Before you can follow the steps below, you must install Disconnected Image Capture on each workstation that will capture images during a procedure. Click here for the installation files and here for the install instructions (within the Video Capture Setup document).
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Prescribing medications electronically helps to improve accuracy and reduce errors. You can also prescribe controlled substances electronically in gGastro®, and in some states, you may be required to.
*Click here to read about the recent e-prescribing mandate for Florida.
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You can create secure passwords, to protect your access to gGastro®, but still process your service notes faster with a 4-digit PIN.
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Scan more efficiently by bulk scanning documents into gGastro®. Then, you can unlink the pages with a single click to file individually. After unlinking, if specific pages must remain together, you can just as easily re-link them!