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A new category was introduced as part of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).  Clinical practice improvement activities, a.k.a. improvement activities, are weighted as high or medium, and make up 15% of the MIPS Performance score. The subcategories of improvement activities include: Achieving Health Equity, Behavioral and Mental Health, Beneficiary Engagement, Care Coordination, Emergency Response […]

Understandably, the first of the year presents its fair share of challenges for healthcare professionals and organizations.  For many of us, especially during the first of the year, it is easier to keep tabs on our day-to-day duties, and forget about compliance. Instead of thinking of compliance as once and done or something to address […]

Included in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Advancing Care Information replaces the Medicare EHR Incentive Program, a.k.a. Meaningful Use. Advancing Care Information makes up 25% of your 2017 Performance Score and focuses on the secure exchange of health information and the use of certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT). According to Andy Slavitt, Acting […]

Here are 3 tips, tools and topics we shared this year that you may be thankful for. “Modified” Stage 2 Meaningful Use   Just recently, CMS announced modifications to the EHR Incentive Programs beginning in 2015 and continuing through 2017.  Starting in 2015, all providers were required to attest to a single set of objectives […]

Whether you are an administrator of a large healthcare organization, a medical assistant of a small medical practice, or a healthcare provider working out of multiple locations; under HIPAA, we all have a responsibility to ensure the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) – regardless of our role.  In this fifth and final […]