There are some changes CMS has made when it comes to the eligibility. Before only providers, certified nurses, anesthetists and assistants were included. But now, even physical and occupational therapists, pathologists, registered nutritionists, and clinical psychologists are eligible for MIPS. There was debate on whether to include Social Workers, but they are eliminated from the final rule.

CMS has also given the opportunity for the small practices with low-volume threshold to participate. The MIPS program payment for the providers who ‘Opt-in’ will depend on neutral, negative or positive payment adjustments based on their final score.

Some of the other changes for small practices are that it will receive small incentive which will be included in the quality performance category score instead of stand-alone bonus in 2019. There will be increment of 6 points if the provider submits data on at least one quality measure. There are also changes in cost, improvement activity and promoting interoperability.

When it comes to interoperability there are ways to promote it through e-prescribing, Health information Exchange, provider to patient exchange, public health and clinical data exchange. Other advanced APM changes like MIPS, CMS have gradually implemented the advanced APM pathway to ensure provider success in the risk-based reimbursement program.

When proper APM criteria is given, it reduces confusion and burden for payers and eligible providers submitting payments to CMS. Applying the certified electronic health record technology threshold gives around 75% of eligible providers. There is also extension of 8% revenue-based nominal amount standard for advanced APMs and other payer advanced APMs through the 2024 performance year.

A proactive support is required to clarify the requirements for MIPS APMs to access performance on quality measures and cost, and updating the MIPS APM measure sets for the APM scoring standard. iPatientCare MIPS support, has a dedicated SME to work with your practice throughout the year. They create a plan and set goals, identify and solve any problems that come in the way for meeting quality requirements. The experts at iPatientCare even provide training on how to achieve MIPS success, and support for the Audit. They even offer personalized consulting plan that helps stay compliant throughout the year.

The iPatientCare PCMH 2017 support also provides understanding of the process and coaching on how to go about. The experts also assist in redesigning the workflow to ensure easy experience for providers, staff and patients. The practice staff or trainer ensures the integration of PCMH requirement measures into workflow, policies and procedures.

There is also support for demonstration of requirements compliances and generate meaningful reports for population management, care coordination, and care management staff, so that they are able to effectively analyze data. There is also a dedicated SME assigned for incident based support, where complete responsibility is taken if there is any trouble with the software. There is also maintenance and renewal support that provides support for submitting data, reports and documentation annually. The audit support is scheduled upon request, where SME will gather all documentation and reports to support attestation.

With all the given support, the ultimate aim is to reduce all the administrative burden, so that the providers can do their duty towards patients. Firstly, when it comes to documentation changes, the providers are given choices to which type of method they want to follow – medical decision making only, providers’ time spent face to face with patients or E&M guidelines for history, physical exam and medical decision making.

The providers may focus on items that have changed since last visit or the items that have not changed and they do not have to re-record if the information is already updated. For instance, if the ancillary staff or beneficiary has already entered the information on patient’s history then only thing required is for provider to indicate that the information is reviewed and verified.

When it comes to changes in billing the same-day visits, there is restriction by CMS to do the payment for two E/M visits billed by the provider for the same beneficiary on the same day. CMS proposed major reforms to E&M payments including single blended payment rates.

This applies for both new and old patients for office/outpatient E&M level 2 through 5 visits, essentially proposing to collapse the number of codes from five levels to two. There is also separate level of payment for the most complex patient care and there is adaption of a new extended visit (add-on codes) for primary care, specialty care and prolonged services too.

There is also payment for communication technology services. CMS is finalizing proposals to pay separately for virtual check-in and remote evaluation of recorded video and images that are submitted by an established patient. For instance, have to pay separately for chronic care remote physiologic monitoring and internet consultation. This applies to telehealth services, where they have to make separate payment for bundled episode for care for management and counseling that is done for substance use disorders.

CMS is constantly changing its regulations and codes in every aspect of healthcare. Therefore, it is impossible for the practices to balance their patients and documentation. iPatientCare has team of experts that are ready to assist you 24/7 and take all the hurdles out of your practices’ way.

The purpose of this webinar is to keep the users engaged and updated with the current industry enhancements and also new developments within the iPatientCare system. These sessions are focused in terms of education, exhibition, and entertainment every month.

In this webinar, our experts will focus on the Quality Payment Program (QPP), established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization ACT of 2015 (MACRA). This is a quality payment incentive program for physicians and other eligible clinicians, which rewards value and outcomes in one of the two ways: either through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) or Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). The CMS continues to ramp up the program in the second year by providing more flexibilities to reduce the burden on clinicians and new incentives for participation.

Without wasting your time, this session will give a quick recap of the 2017 Submission Requirements and a look at the changes in the QPP Year 2 Final Rule. Afterward, the session will continue to Audit Readiness, followed by the overview of QPP Year 2 (The performance Year 2018). Finally, the session will move towards the key changes to MIPS Performance Categories and Score for 2018, then end the session with the participation options and eligibility.  This session is due on Thursday, Jan 18th, 2018, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST.

Doctors are someone who helped and healed most of us in this world. Since thousands of years doctors are remarkable serving the mankind. This profession has survived many transformations with unfailing commitment to maintaining and improving human health.

iPatientCare strongly stands by these words ‘Saving Lives’; and physicians are the who work hard to Save Lives of the people. On National Doctor’s Day, iPatientCare salutes the contribution by physicians and doctors for ‘Saving Lives’ and healing the mankind. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on the development of medicine and appreciate the quality of physicians care today.

Happy #NationalDoctorsDay!

Looking up to the trends, we are providing sessions to our end user on ‘What all you need to know about Incentives, Penalties and Case Management – Beginning 2015 Onwards!’

Many practices are facing troubles and challenges in various incentive programs in order to manage certain segmented processes like how to participate and their subsequences, gains and losses, etc. and struggling to cope up with them. In respect to these concerns, we would like to enlighten most influential areas; incentives and penalties associated with various programs. We will go through the adversity of penalties affecting your financial impact 2015 onwards and earning more incentives.

It is a crucial and very important task to manage the cases of your patients with accuracy. What if we provide you a demonstration on performing a better case management within your own iPatientCare Practice Management software? A newly added feature of iPatientCare. In this VUCON January 2015, we have planned to provide you the trending and most important guidelines on the below topics for your Practice’s betterment.

Important areas of the session, which we shall be covering:

1. Count your Incentives and Penalties – Beginning 2015
o Incentive Programs – Get better understanding on current status and heading challenges
o Incentives and Penalties in 2015 and onwards
o Penalties can have high cumulative financial losses
o How iPatientCare, your technology partner can help you to achieve your targets?
2. Understanding Case Management
o Case Management as Episode of Care
o Case Management handling by Insurance Plan
o Speed up claims processing – An Automated Process

To know more about iPatientCare VUCON January 2015, Visit our website NOW!

The glory of successful and happiness shed over us throughout the year in 2014. At the onset of this auspicious cheerful time, iPatientCare giving you a bunch of warm wishes for Christmas and New Year. We are pleased and proud of working with all our customers, business partners and channel partners. With all of you, we are looking ahead the years of great success and development of all the ventures connected with us.

The end of the season is also a miraculous time for being grateful for the wonderful remembrances of the previous season and wish for the great times forward. iPatientCare experienced the incredible satisfaction by getting wonderful reviews from the customers in this year and for having a group, who is continually making a beneficial participation towards its development.

So let’s cherish each moment that the year shall behold and celebrate a blissful start together in 2015.

Enjoy Holidays!

iPatientCare, a pioneer in mHealth and cloud-based ambulatory EHR and integrated Practice Management solutions introduced its one more innovation – ‘miWatch’, yet Another Innovative Wearable App on Android Ware Based Smartwatches to improve the Medication Adherence. miWatch is a very much handy watch which validates for its unique uses as innovative wearable App Technology in HealthCare IT.

miWatch is designed for providers to ease their practice management by reminding about appointments, Rx-refill requests, Labs/Test results, unread messages, and much more. miWatch, for patients is a boon as it includes a very handy access to reminders for medication adherence, appointment with doctors, provides alerts and notifications from patient portal, maintaining better patient engagement.

We believe to drive ourselves serving better outcomes and meaningful solutions to our practices and their patients. Hence, miWatch is aimed in such a way that it is useful to physicians, office managers, staff and patients.

What is that missing piece in your practices, makes your practice hard and painful? Is that your ‘EHR’?

iPatientCare is coming up with a Webinar on “What is that missing piece in your practice?” to know the potential of EHRs for Quality of care and patient outcomes, Care efficiency and financial gains on October 29,2014.

The webinar focuses on 3 important points, which matter a lot for practices:
Quality of care and patient outcomes: EHR solution or service has a direct impact on patient care and outcomes, Does your EHR enables you to measure Quality of care and patient outcomes?
Care efficiency: EHR solution or service has a direct impact on efficiency of providing Patient Care, Does your EHR enables you to facilitate more efficient care?
Financial gains: EHRs help your practices to experience financial gains, Does your EHR enables you to experience financial gains?

To know more about the potential of an ideal Electronic Health Records (EHR), join us at – iPatientCare Webinar on 29th October 12:30 PM EST.
To register for the webinar – http://bit.ly/iPatientCareWebinar

For any queries, write us at sales@iPatientCare.com

According to WHO,
26 million people globally live with Schizophrenia
90% of people with untreated Schizophrenia live in the developing world
50% of people with Schizophrenia cannot access adequate treatment

To put more light on Schizophrenia, sharing something about it.

Schizophrenia is diagnosed as a mental disorder which makes it hard for patients to

– Understand and state differences between real and unreal
– It becomes bewildered situation for patient to think clearly
– Patient acts weird as they are answering to these misconceptions and hallucinations.

iPatientCare, a pioneer in mHealth and cloud-based ambulatory EHR and integrated Practice Management solutions considers patient’s health as a priority and developed ‘Physiatrist specialty EHR’, focused on the needs of Physiatrist. It allows them to note patient health records easily and gives more time to provide better patient experience. Eventually, it helps to record the keynotes of Psychotherapy and treat the patients effectively.

About iPatientCare Physiatrist EHR:

iPatientCare Physiatrist EHR is structured in the way that Physiatrists can smoothly maintain the records like Treatment Plan, Drug Abuse, PHQ-9 or Depression Questionnaire, Beck Inventory, AIMS Form, Mental Status Exam, Mini-Mental Status Exam, and DSM-IV Diagnosis codes.

To know more about the specialty focused EHR, contact us at sales@iPatientCare.com

The healthcare industry is undertaking a huge change with focus on improving the quality of care at reduced cost that demands open and engaging discussion from different healthcare IT stakeholders. We have celebrated #NHITWeek by participating in various activities ranging from Press Release, Blog Carnival, Social Media interaction and many more. Throughout the event ewe had been busy keeping our eye on multiple discussion on the trending topics of the event like patient engagement and empowerment, Interoperability, mHealth and generating live tweets to show our commitment towards National Health IT Week.

Few of the event highlights were –

DeSalvo touts interoperability, Blue Button at Consumer Health IT Summit

#NHITWeek Kicked off with 2014 Annual Consumer Health IT Summit. National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo talked about the advancements in the industry, such as Blue Button, which allows patients to secure online access to their electronic records, and the commitment to interoperability.

Infographic 25 Years of the HIMSS Leadership Survey

HIMSS released a report that includes the findings of 25 years of their annual Health IT Leadership survey. The report includes responses from over 12,700 hospital and health system leaders from 1990-2014.

New patient engagement chief at ONC

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has appointed Lana Moriarty to be the new head of its Consumer eHealth division.

ONC, Health IT industry argue over interoperability

Lawmakers respond to industry outcry with Flex-IT Bill — ONC, #HIT people argue over interoperability.

10 Ways to Make ICD-10 Relatable to ANYONE during #NHITweek

HiMSS released 10 ways to make ICD-10 relatable which is useful to anyone.

Share your favorite moment during #NHITWeek.

NUCON 2014 is coming up with overwhelming updates this year and lots of happy goodies before Holiday starts. The entire day event will include educational sessions, exhibition, and entertainment with some amazing goodies and cuisines delivered as part of entertainment for the attendees before welcoming the festive season.

Our grand annual event aims to unite and connect iPatientCare channel partners, end users, certified professionals, business partners, and employees of iPatientCare.

Educational sessions at NUCON will focus on the enlightening the so demanding extravagant exposure of Meaningful Use Stage 2 focusing on its ‘Improved Outcome’. As per the altering healthcare environs, we have upgraded services to bring forth ONC Meaningful Use Stage 2 (2014 Edition) Certified and ICD-10 Ready EHR. The introduction of web browser based SaaS and app based mobile front-end on leading operating systems, namely, Apple, and Windows exemplify iPatientCare as a technology and knowledge driven organization.

As expected there comes the most exciting session of our NUCON2014, where tremendous leading cutting edge technologies integrated with iPatientCare services will be exhibited. As usual the exhibition will be exciting followed by coffee breaks, appetizing snacks, drinks, and meals scheduled to make the event an enlivening experience.

The stimulating grand finale of the event embraces entertaining activities like games and lucky draw which will eventually lead to distribution of exciting prizes to winners at the Lucky Draw organized towards the end of the event!

iPatientCare is all geared to kick-start the holiday season over the wine, cheese and chocolates and the special gift pack with the esteemed customer base!