90 Day Reporting – GET ON IT!

With so many outcome and reporting expectations from Medicare and other payers, choosing to report (never mind when, and how) can become just another exercise in provider based procrastination. The Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) is a different beast. This is why we are talking about 90 Day Reporting!While CMS (Medicare) is throwing a bone this year by allowing penalty…

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Top 10 Reasons You Should Be Using a QCDR

David Letterman may be gone from regular late-night television, but his Top 10 shtick is still a favorite well past a time when the younger crowd cannot recall who made it popular.  What’s not going away is the Quality Payment Program (QPP) and thankfully, it includes Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDR) to personalize and optimize the quality measure reporting experience.  QCDRs…

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Why MIPS EMR Quality Reporting is Risky…

Ok, so you probably guessed I don’t own an EMR (because I am the Principal/CEO of Patient360). However, I have worked on more than nine in the last twenty plus years in medicine both in and outside of hospital systems. The expectations are the same in-house or on your own in the private sector. EMRs should improve care, save money, and help all healthcare providers better communicate with improved data capture.
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M4B in QPP with P360

Most people hate change. It’s hard and often challenging. However, change can also be an opportunistic adventure. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether you like change. In the world of CMS reimbursement, change requires expanded participation… or in 2017, any participation! In short, participate or be penalized. Medicare is giving out “gifts”, and there’s no fat…

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