Practice Fusion 2016 Meaningful Use Attestation Webinar
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Transcript of Practice Fusion 2016 Meaningful Use Attestation Webinar
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Practice Fusion offers:
+ Comprehensive Meaningful Use and attestation resources
+ Live webinars
+ Intuitive dashboard to track progress
+ Knowledge Base articles
+ A knowledgeable support team, ready to help you
Practice Fusion is your MU & MIPS partner
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+ 2016 Meaningful Use eligibility
+ Overview of 2016 reporting requirements
+ Important deadlines
+ Preparing for attestation
+ Attestation process in the CMS portal
+ Practice Fusion resources
+ Q&A
Agenda
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+ Eligibility Guidelines
You qualify individually
You practice in the outpatient setting
You may only participate in one program
+ Medicare
Receive Medicare Part B reimbursements
+ Medicaid
Meet 30% patient volume threshold
Meet 20% threshold for pediatricians
*Meet 30% “needy individual” patient volume
Eligible professionals
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Medicare Medicaid
Doctors of
medicine or
osteopathy
Doctors of
medicine or
osteopathy
Doctors of dental
surgery or dental
medicine
Nurse practitioner
Doctor of podiatry Certified nurse-
midwife
Doctor of
optometry
Dentist
Chiropractor *Physician
assistantFurnishes services in a
Federally Qualified
Health Center or Rural
Health Clinic lead by a
physician assistant
+ 2016 reporting year requirements for all providers:
Attest to Stage 2
90-day reporting period
Stages and reporting periods
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+ You must record all patients you see in the outpatient setting
for Meaningful Use.
+ If you see patients in the hospital, you do not need to include
them in Practice Fusion for Meaningful Use.
+ At minimum, you must maintain more than 80% of your
patients in the certified EHR for Meaningful Use.
Which patients do I record in Practice Fusion?
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+ October 2, 2016
The last possible start date for a 90-day reporting period in 2016
+ January 3, 2017
Attestation opens
+ March 13, 2017
Extended attestation deadline for Medicare program
+ Medicaid attestation
State Medicaid program deadlines may differ
Recommended that eligible providers attest before February 28,
2017 to ensure they meet any state Medicaid attestation deadline.
Deadlines
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+ Declaration that you have achieved Meaningful Use
+ Report values for:
Objectives and measures
Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs)
+ Reported through:
Medicare: CMS Registration and Attestation System
Medicaid: State Medicaid program website
What is attestation?
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+ Maintain more than 80% of your patient records in Practice Fusion
during your reporting period.
+ Confirm you achieved OR qualify for an exclusion to ALL the
required measures.
+ Sign notes for all patients seen during your reporting to see those
visits reflected on the Meaningful Use Dashboard.
Confirm you have achieved Meaningful Use
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Stage 2
10 Objectives
At least 9 CQMs related to 3 NQS domains
+ Proof of information exchanges for the following measures:
Immunization registry data submission
Syndromic surveillance data submission
Specialized registry data submission
+ Documented Security Risk Analysis
+ Documentation of any measure(s) for which you are not
using the Meaningful Use Dashboard
Documentation of actions outside of the EHR
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+ Keep screenshots of functionality or reports from Practice
Fusion that are dated during your reporting period for the
following measures:
Drug Formulary Checks (part of the eRx workflow)
Drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks
Clinical Decision Support
+ These screenshots can serve as additional supporting
documentation in case of an audit.
Screenshots for YES/NO measures
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+ Prepare any documentation needed to prove that you qualify
for an exclusion and save it for your records.
+ The Meaningful Use Dashboard denominator values may
show that you qualify for an exclusion to a particular
measure.
Save documentation for exclusions
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+ Located on your Meaningful Use Dashboard:
Reporting period start & end dates
Practice Fusion’s CMS certification ID
+ From your own records:
Your NPPES credentials
Individual NPI number
Tax Identification Number (TIN)
Additional key items
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+ Medicare: https://ehrincentives.cms.gov
+ Medicaid: Contact your individual state Medicaid program
CMS attestation portal
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+ After logging in, proceed to
the Attestation tab and
select the “Attest” button
Begin your attestation
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+ Select which Public Health Reporting
measures you are attesting to
Select your Public Health Reporting measures
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+ Select if exclusion
applies to you
+ Choosing “No” will allow
entry of measure
completion
Exclusions
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+ Choose 2nd option if you are reporting values from the MU
Dashboard
This will be an option for some of the patient-based measures
Patient records
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+ Option 1: Electronic submission:
Submit data by March 13, 2017
Medicare EPs have the option to submit a
full year of data electronically to receive
credit for the EHR Incentive Program and
the Physician Quality Reporting System
(PQRS) if using the PQRS EHR reporting
mechanism.
+ Option 2: Manual submission
Submitting CQMs manually allows you to
complete your attestation.
Manual submission via attestation only
allows you to receive credit for the EHR
Incentive Program.
Reporting Clinical Quality Measures
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+ Read the disclaimer and
click on Agree or Disagree
+ If you choose Agree and you
have met all Meaningful Use
objectives and measures,
you will receive the
“Accepted Attestation”
submission receipt
Confirm submission
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+ Keep your documentation for 6 years after you attest in
case of an audit
+ Print your MU Dashboard on the day you attest
+ Don’t wait!
+ Technical difficulties?
Contact the EHR Incentive Program hotline: (888) 734-6433
Recap
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+ www.practicefusion.com/meaningfuluse
+ www.practicefusion.com/attest
Practice Fusion Meaningful Use Center
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+ http://knowledgebase.practicefusion.com/
Practice Fusion Knowledge Base
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+ 2016 is the last reporting year for the Medicare Meaningful
Use program.
+ Beginning in 2017, Medicare providers will be subject to the
Quality Payment Program through participation in either:
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs).
+ Attend our Medicare Payments in 2017 live webinar.
www.practicefusion.com/webinars
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