AMA releases 2021 CPT code set SEP 1, 2020 CHICAGO— The first major overhaul in more than 25 years to the codes and guidelines for office and other outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services was included in today’s release of the 2021 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set published by the American Medical Association (AMA). These foundational…
Navigating Telemedicine Reimbursement in the New Normal TriZetto Webinar – Wednesday, September 16, 10:00-11:00 AM PDT The COVID-19 pandemic brought unwelcome challenges overnight, leaving the healthcare industry foundering in a sea of change. Physicians quickly emerged as heroes, but planning – and willpower – will be important to navigate in order to sustain your practice’s…
Primary Care Doctors Look at Payment Overhaul After Pandemic Disruption Kaiser Health News, August 12, 2020 Kaiser Health News looks at the continued pressure primary care physicians find themselves in as a result of COVID-19-induced revenue decreases: Corporate owners are giving some practices an ultimatum – show viability or face sale or closure, forcing those practices to…
The Medical Practice of the Future. How will you adapt? Blog Post by Stephen Rhodes, August 7, 2020 What will the medical office of the future look like post the pandemic? How will you adapt your practice and what role will technology play? Caring for patients is a high-touch process, but today we find…
Telehealth to become permanent under Trump executive order Healthcare Finance, August 3, 2020 Susan Moore, Managing Editor President Donald Trump today signed an executive order to make permanent the temporary flexibilities for telehealth allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Today I’m taking action to ensure telehealth is here to stay,” Trump said during a news conference.…
Reinvent Your Practice eClinicalWorks Telehealth Reinventing your medical practice starts as an idea, but with an innovative healthcare IT partner, it can become a reality. eClinicalWorks helps with every stage of healthcare, starting with online booking and payment collection, continuing with a safe, contactless check-in process, and leading to easy, flexible methods for documenting Progress…
Health system leaders attribute telehealth, communication and planning to financial recovery Healthcare Finance News, July 16, 2020 Mallory Hackett, Associate Editor Executives spoke about navigating through the pandemic during the Healthcare Financial Management Association Digital Annual Conference. As health systems begin the road to financial recovery from the pandemic, one characteristic of executives has emerged: they…
Digitize Your Front Office Now more than ever, practices are feeling pressure to ensure minimal touches in the front office to safequard employees and patients. Watch this informative webinar from eClinicalWorks and eCW customers on How to Digitize Your Front Office. Contact sales for more information. eClinicalWorks Post from July 1, 2020 Today, digitizing…
This year’s Georgia MGMA Spring Conference will be held on September 13-15, 2020 in Savannah, Georgia. Please join Ero Health for an opportunity to learn and share ideas about the future of healthcare and navigating through challenges. More details to come. In the meantime, please mark your calendars. You can learn more here.
The 2020 Annual Meeting has moved! Mark your calendar for September 9-11, 2020. The Texas MGMA meeting will be held at the Westin Memorial City in Houston, Texas this year. Join our Ero Health team as we participate in an opportunity to network and learn. There will be several engaging discussions on key topics impacting…
MGMA Releases Checklist for Reopening Your Practice If you are about to re-open your practice, we encourage you to read the Covid-19 Medical Practice Reopening Checklist provided by MGMA. This document covers items such as determining priorities, preparing employees, and even forecasting a budget. There are also a series of special considerations to evaluate to help manage…
Center for Disease Control (CDC) Control Online Post Purpose of this Guidance This interim guidance outlines goals and strategies suggested for U.S. ambulatory care settings in response to community spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Ambulatory care settings are where health services or acute care services are provided on an outpatient basis and can include community…
TriZetto Provider Solutions May Telemedicine & Coding Webinar On May 13, 2020, TriZetto Provider Solutions is hosting an educational webinar with speaker Betsy Nicoletti. Betsy Nicoletti, founder of Medical Practice Consulting, is a nationally known expert in coding and reimbursement for medical practices. She is also the author of the Physician Auditing Workbook 3rd edition…
CMS NEWS: Billing for Professional Telehealth Distant Site Services During the Public Health Emergency — Revised This corrects a prior message that appeared in our March 31, 2020 Special Edition. Building on prior action to expand reimbursement for telehealth services to Medicare beneficiaries, CMS will now allow for more than 80 additional services to be furnished via…
April 15 Webinar, 12:00 PM CST How can practices attend to patients, manage staff and maintain a business during this challenging time while also conforming to telehealth and HIPAA regulations? Attend the @trizettoprovidersolutions webinar with Jim Johnson of Live Compliance for actionable insight. https://bit.ly/3aA6nmL
TriZetto Webinar, April 8, 2020 – 10:00 AM PST to 11:00 AM PST How is #COVID19 affecting your practice? We would like to invite you to attend TriZetto Provider Solutions telemedicine webinar to hear Elizabeth Woodcock share the most up-to-date information to help you implement telemedicine services and ensure you are paid. You can register…
March 28, 2020 Under the President’s leadership, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an expansion of its accelerated and advance payment program for Medicare participating health care providers and suppliers, to ensure they have the resources needed to combat the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This program expansion, which includes changes from…
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. As a result of the declaration, the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHOFIC) Network Classification and Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC) convened an emergency meeting on January 31, 2020 to discuss the…
The Trump Administration announced on March 17 an expanded Medicare telehealth coverage that will enable beneficiaries to receive a wider range of healthcare services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. Beginning on March 6, 2020, Medicare—administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—will temporarily pay clinicians to provide…
BY JAMIE DUCHARME MARCH 3, 2020 For years, telemedicine has been pitched as a way to democratize medicine by driving down costs, increasing access to care and making appointments more efficient. It sounds great—until you look at the data, and find that only about 10% of Americans have actually used telemedicine to make a virtual visit, according to one…
Like many, we are disappointed that we will not be able to meet in person, but excited to participate in the HIMSS Digital Conference. See an update from HIMMS posted March 11 below! HIMSS Update Published March 11, 2020: Thank you to everyone who has shown us such strong support. We truly appreciate your understanding,…
The Ero Health team will be displaying at the 19th Annual Health Care Symposium on April 3, 2020.Join us at the Anaheim Hilton on 777 West Convention Way in Anaheim, California. You can register here.
The data submission deadline for the qualified registry, QCDR, EHR, and attestation submission mechanisms is March 31, 2020, 8 pm EDT. This is when the submission window closes. Data can be submitted and updated anytime until the deadline when the submission window closes. For claims method, the data submission deadline was December 31 of the performance period, followed by 60 days of the claims run-out period.
Preliminary MIPS Eligibility is available. You can now view your preliminary eligibility. Final eligibility will be available by December 2020.
Effective January 1st, as a referring provider, the ONLY way your Medicare patients will be approved for diagnostic imaging tests is if you comply with the new imaging Clinical Decision Support (CDS) mandate. This is more work for you, but the ONLY way your patients can receive the diagnostic tests they need. Don’t make the…
eClinicalWorks has announced a collaboration with Humana, Inc., GuideWell, and Trusted Health Plan to provide advanced bidirectional interoperability through their Healow Insights integrated services. Aligned with the shift in healthcare, eClinicalWorks is built for the next step in the evolution of healthcare IT by aligning to meet the challenges and opportunities of value-based care. To…
eClinicalWorks is constantly reviewing technology platforms and architectures to provide clients with the best possible reporting solutions, and to plan for projected growth. As a result, eClinicalWorks will be completing required maintenance on the MIPS, MAQ, ACO, and CPC+ Dashboards. This maintenance has been scheduled for Monday, November 25, 2019 through Sunday, December 1, 2019.…
As we have been communicating since May 2019, eClinicalWorks is requiring that all practices upgrade to V11 by November 30. At the conference, eClinicalWorks stated that 94% of their clients are now on V11. Please contact us at support@ero.health today to plan you upgrade. We will help you understand the hardware requirements, timeline and training options. As…
New Mexico has announced funding for the PDMP integration through Appriss through August of 2020. As a reminder, eClinicalWorks does not charge for this integration. Any and all costs will be charged through Appriss – New Mexico is funding this cost for a year. Please contact us at support@ero.health about the Appriss integration! We can help you through…
St. Louis, MO – As the healthcare reimbursement landscape continues to evolve, medical practices require an enhanced level of support to implement the most effective technology solutions and workflows. To meet this growing need, St. Louis-based Curas, Inc. and Physicians Trust of Santa Ana, Calif. have merged to form Ero Health, the largest reseller in…
Healthcare Tech Outlook recently featured Mi7 Solutions in its issue featuring the Top 10 EHR solutions providers for 2018. The article announcing the honor acknowledged the firm’s role in helping medical practices access and make best use of the data in their electronic health records and practice management systems. Mi7 Vice President Joe Falcomata had…
All great initiatives start with a plan, a great deal of soul searching about exactly what it is you are trying to accomplish, and what you have at your disposal to work with. The process of discreet data extraction from your electronic health records system is no different. Having a plan and knowing what you…
eClinicalWorks is a great tool for many practices, providing great capabilities for managing data. We at Ero Health also know that not all practices are the same. Each has a set of unique needs and challenges in their use of the technology. When it comes to extracting data, there are specific requirements for reporting to…
The St. Louis Business Journal’s Brian Feldt recently interviewed Mi7 Solutions’ founder Brad Cassity about his recent departure from Curas and the launch of Mi7. The article discussed the increased need for lab device integration, data extraction and migration, and system interfaces for Electronic Health Records systems being used in hospital and medical practice environments.…
The Client Established in 1974, Arthritis Consultants, Inc. is a Rheumatology practice with three locations in the St. Louis area. The firm is the oldest Rheumatology practice in operation in St. Louis. The Situation As medical practices continue to mature in their use of Electronic Health Records, many are looking for more functionality and integration…
