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| SEPTEMBER 2010 NEWSLETTER Trustworthy, Stress Free, Reliable Practice Management Services |
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL UNTIL THURSDAY, SEPT
16TH
Medisoft Version 16 discounted up to $1050.00 for
Medisoft Network. Call for a quote today
Pre-Orders for Version 17 discounted (Product
ships in December) you must be on Version 16 to
take advantage of this discount
Pre-Order Version 17 available in December
2010
(You must be on Version 16 to take advantage
of this special pre-order offer)
Basic Medisoft $ 87 + tax/shipping $112
Advanced Medisoft $226 + tax/shipping $272.00
Network Professional Medisoft $626 + tax/shipping =
$709 (Advantage must be upgraded as well and
not included in this price)
One more special offer for Capario EDI Users:
McKesson is offering 90 days free RelayHealth EDI
when you switch from Capario before 09/17/10.
You can send commerical claims when application is
approved and Medicare claims allow 6 weeks for
approval at Palmetto GBA.
Revenue Management:
Reminder to update your Revenue Management. A
newer version is available. Go to your “All
Programs” menu and search for Revenue
Management and choose “check for updates”.
Follow the prompts to update. The process takes
less than 10 minutes to complete.
Please call if you assistance with this update.
Medisoft Clinical EMR: If your office is preparing
for government mandated EMR, please remember
McKesson has an EMR system that ties in with
Medisoft and we can arrange a demo of the
product. Give us a call to set up a time convenient
for your doctors and providers. Check our website
for more details on the EMR system.
Incentive money arriving in May 2011
What are you doing to prepare for the CMS
changes in 2011 regarding EHR?????
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services will begin to
make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible
physicians and hospitals as
early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS
official, who detailed steps the
agency is taking to start up the incentive program.
CMS will open registration for the incentive program
in January, said Karen
Trudel, deputy director of the Office of E-Health
Standards & Services at CMS.
To begin receiving payments, healthcare providers
must verify that they have
demonstrated meaningful use of certified electronic
health records for 90 days.
To fit in 90 days of meaningful use means, "that no
one will be able to attest
before April," she said. "The first payments will go
out in the middle of May,"
she said at a July 28 meeting of the federal advisory
Health IT Standards
Committee.
Now that CMS has released its final rule on
meaningful use, the agency is
readying systems and processes that will trigger the
payments. "We're now
engineering back into the system all the changes
that occurred in the final rule,"
she said. Getting it right is important because CMS
will pay out billions of dollars in
incentives called for in the HITECH Act over the next
several years, said Trudel,
who indicated the pressure is on. "We are now
working toward making all of this
a reality and we have only about six months to do
it," she said.
The agency will roll out a registration service in
January so physicians and
hospitals can sign up for the program. CMS must
also test its systems to make
sure they can handle the interactions transmitted
through registration,
attestation and payment.
Eligible hospitals and Medicare physicians must
have a national provider
identifier and be enrolled in the CMS Provider
Enrollment, Chain and
Ownership System (PECOS) if they aren't already to
participate in the EHR
incentive program. Most providers also need to
have an active user account in
the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System
(NPPES).
PECOS manages, tracks and validates the
enrollment of providers and
suppliers in the Medicare program. NPPES is a
system that assigns unique
identifiers to health plans and providers in
exchanging health information. CMS
will use the records in these systems to register
providers for the program and
Continued
16TH
Medisoft Version 16 discounted up to $1050.00 for
Medisoft Network. Call for a quote today
Pre-Orders for Version 17 discounted (Product
ships in December) you must be on Version 16 to
take advantage of this discount
Pre-Order Version 17 available in December
2010
(You must be on Version 16 to take advantage
of this special pre-order offer)
Basic Medisoft $ 87 + tax/shipping $112
Advanced Medisoft $226 + tax/shipping $272.00
Network Professional Medisoft $626 + tax/shipping =
$709 (Advantage must be upgraded as well and
not included in this price)
One more special offer for Capario EDI Users:
McKesson is offering 90 days free RelayHealth EDI
when you switch from Capario before 09/17/10.
You can send commerical claims when application is
approved and Medicare claims allow 6 weeks for
approval at Palmetto GBA.
Revenue Management:
Reminder to update your Revenue Management. A
newer version is available. Go to your “All
Programs” menu and search for Revenue
Management and choose “check for updates”.
Follow the prompts to update. The process takes
less than 10 minutes to complete.
Please call if you assistance with this update.
Medisoft Clinical EMR: If your office is preparing
for government mandated EMR, please remember
McKesson has an EMR system that ties in with
Medisoft and we can arrange a demo of the
product. Give us a call to set up a time convenient
for your doctors and providers. Check our website
for more details on the EMR system.
Incentive money arriving in May 2011
What are you doing to prepare for the CMS
changes in 2011 regarding EHR?????
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services will begin to
make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible
physicians and hospitals as
early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS
official, who detailed steps the
agency is taking to start up the incentive program.
CMS will open registration for the incentive program
in January, said Karen
Trudel, deputy director of the Office of E-Health
Standards & Services at CMS.
To begin receiving payments, healthcare providers
must verify that they have
demonstrated meaningful use of certified electronic
health records for 90 days.
To fit in 90 days of meaningful use means, "that no
one will be able to attest
before April," she said. "The first payments will go
out in the middle of May,"
she said at a July 28 meeting of the federal advisory
Health IT Standards
Committee.
Now that CMS has released its final rule on
meaningful use, the agency is
readying systems and processes that will trigger the
payments. "We're now
engineering back into the system all the changes
that occurred in the final rule,"
she said. Getting it right is important because CMS
will pay out billions of dollars in
incentives called for in the HITECH Act over the next
several years, said Trudel,
who indicated the pressure is on. "We are now
working toward making all of this
a reality and we have only about six months to do
it," she said.
The agency will roll out a registration service in
January so physicians and
hospitals can sign up for the program. CMS must
also test its systems to make
sure they can handle the interactions transmitted
through registration,
attestation and payment.
Eligible hospitals and Medicare physicians must
have a national provider
identifier and be enrolled in the CMS Provider
Enrollment, Chain and
Ownership System (PECOS) if they aren't already to
participate in the EHR
incentive program. Most providers also need to
have an active user account in
the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System
(NPPES).
PECOS manages, tracks and validates the
enrollment of providers and
suppliers in the Medicare program. NPPES is a
system that assigns unique
identifiers to health plans and providers in
exchanging health information. CMS
will use the records in these systems to register
providers for the program and
Continued
September Billing Tip: BillFlash Statement
Service
Custom reports hold the BillFlash statements. Easily
upload your statements to BillFlash. Review, edit,
and add comments. Claims are printed, return
envelopes; addresses checked and sent for you.
I use BillFlash for a few practices and I honestly saw
an increase in patient payments and less calls
regarding our statements.
BillFlash: SPECIAL OFFER EXTENDED!
Professional statements, envelopes and return
envelopes.
McKesson offers a service to help save time
printing, folding, stuffing envelopes with return
envelopes and adding postage for your monthly
statements. It’s called BillFlash. Using Medisoft you
upload your statement file to a secure website. You
can then review the statements deciding to stop
print on any you wish. Once you review, the
process begins. BillFlash will track your monthly
statements and add any “dunning messages” for
accounts 60, 90 and to receive a Final Notice.
Payments come directly to your office in a nice
return envelope with the patient’s checks. Saving
your staff hours each month. Cost is a monthly
service fee including postage. If you would like to
see a demo please call or contact our office today
Medisoft Version 17 Revenue Management:
McKesson has decreased the number of clicks to
send claims.
Configuration Enhancement makes it easier to set
up ERA.
If you are currently on Capario, we want you to move
with us to RelayHealth. RelayHealth has several
options for services and charges to you as low as
$0.40 per claim. Call me for a quote and
information. I can help you step by step through the
paperwork.
Medisoft Version 17 Training Class:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
9:00 to 3:00 pm
Courtyard Marriott Santa Rosa
Cost: $49 / person
Class includes continental breakfast and class
materials
If you purchase Version 17 the class is Free to you!
To sign up send the following:
Name:
Practice:
Current Version of Medisoft:
Phone #:
Fax #:
Additional Staff attending (name(s) :
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
verify Medicare enrollment before making Medicare
EHR incentive payments.
Certification Status
Meanwhile, the Office of the National Coordinator
(ONC) is establishing a
temporary EHR certification program and hopes to
have multiple organizations
ready to certify EHR products to eliminate
"bottlenecks" in the process.
Certification will ensure that EHRs can perform the
functions called for in the
standards and certification criteria final rule that
ONC released. Several
organizations have applied to be temporary certifiers
and testers, and ONC
hopes to evaluate and stand up quickly the
certification organizations.
Doug Fridsma, MD, ONC's acting director of
standards and interoperability,
could not say if they would be operational by Jan. 1,
only that "we are working
as hard as we can to meet those timelines."
Healthcare providers do not have to inform CMS
what certified EHR system
they are using until they submit information verifying
they have met meaningful
use requirements. That means providers may use a
system that hasn't yet been
certified but that they expect will qualify for
certification by the time they fill out
the CMS attestation module, Trudel said.
"Let's say if you have 90 days of meaningful use by
April but don't have an EHR
that is certified until March, you can still go ahead
and attest," she said.
CMS will also set up a help desk to answer
questions and offer basic
information about the incentive program. Trudel said
CMS and ONC would also
make sure CMS regional offices and ONC regional
extension centers, "are
communicating ... so that if they get a question that's
ours or we get a question
that is theirs, we know how to reach each other."
Service
Custom reports hold the BillFlash statements. Easily
upload your statements to BillFlash. Review, edit,
and add comments. Claims are printed, return
envelopes; addresses checked and sent for you.
I use BillFlash for a few practices and I honestly saw
an increase in patient payments and less calls
regarding our statements.
BillFlash: SPECIAL OFFER EXTENDED!
Professional statements, envelopes and return
envelopes.
McKesson offers a service to help save time
printing, folding, stuffing envelopes with return
envelopes and adding postage for your monthly
statements. It’s called BillFlash. Using Medisoft you
upload your statement file to a secure website. You
can then review the statements deciding to stop
print on any you wish. Once you review, the
process begins. BillFlash will track your monthly
statements and add any “dunning messages” for
accounts 60, 90 and to receive a Final Notice.
Payments come directly to your office in a nice
return envelope with the patient’s checks. Saving
your staff hours each month. Cost is a monthly
service fee including postage. If you would like to
see a demo please call or contact our office today
Medisoft Version 17 Revenue Management:
McKesson has decreased the number of clicks to
send claims.
Configuration Enhancement makes it easier to set
up ERA.
If you are currently on Capario, we want you to move
with us to RelayHealth. RelayHealth has several
options for services and charges to you as low as
$0.40 per claim. Call me for a quote and
information. I can help you step by step through the
paperwork.
Medisoft Version 17 Training Class:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
9:00 to 3:00 pm
Courtyard Marriott Santa Rosa
Cost: $49 / person
Class includes continental breakfast and class
materials
If you purchase Version 17 the class is Free to you!
To sign up send the following:
Name:
Practice:
Current Version of Medisoft:
Phone #:
Fax #:
Additional Staff attending (name(s) :
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
verify Medicare enrollment before making Medicare
EHR incentive payments.
Certification Status
Meanwhile, the Office of the National Coordinator
(ONC) is establishing a
temporary EHR certification program and hopes to
have multiple organizations
ready to certify EHR products to eliminate
"bottlenecks" in the process.
Certification will ensure that EHRs can perform the
functions called for in the
standards and certification criteria final rule that
ONC released. Several
organizations have applied to be temporary certifiers
and testers, and ONC
hopes to evaluate and stand up quickly the
certification organizations.
Doug Fridsma, MD, ONC's acting director of
standards and interoperability,
could not say if they would be operational by Jan. 1,
only that "we are working
as hard as we can to meet those timelines."
Healthcare providers do not have to inform CMS
what certified EHR system
they are using until they submit information verifying
they have met meaningful
use requirements. That means providers may use a
system that hasn't yet been
certified but that they expect will qualify for
certification by the time they fill out
the CMS attestation module, Trudel said.
"Let's say if you have 90 days of meaningful use by
April but don't have an EHR
that is certified until March, you can still go ahead
and attest," she said.
CMS will also set up a help desk to answer
questions and offer basic
information about the incentive program. Trudel said
CMS and ONC would also
make sure CMS regional offices and ONC regional
extension centers, "are
communicating ... so that if they get a question that's
ours or we get a question
that is theirs, we know how to reach each other."
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