Five Minutes to Medicare Meaningful Use Attestation Stage
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Five Minutes to Medicare Meaningful Use Attestation Review the
requirements for Medicare MU The Meaningful Use Measures and
Workflows to capture reportable data Monitoring Compliance to MU
measures Answers to frequently asked questions
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Overview of the requirements for Medicare MU Doctors of
Medicine or Osteopathy are Eligible for the Medicare MU incentive
Program The physician must have billed $24,000 of Medicare
Allowable charges during the year the attestation period occurs to
receive the maximum payment. Register for the Incentive Program on
the CMS Website: https://ehrincentives.cms.gov Meet all 15 CORE
measure requirements including reporting on 6 Clinical Quality
Measures or CQMs over a 90 day period by the end of 2012 Meet 5 of
the 10 MENU measure requirements over the same 90 day period Some
of the measures require only a simple answer others require
quantifiable data including constructing ratios with numerators and
denominators using discrete data.
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The Measures and Workflows to capture reportable MU data The
Meaningful Use CORE and MENU set measures are listed on the
simplifyMD Website in simplifyMD University. The Clinical Quality
Measures (CQMs) and Clinical Decision Support Rules are also
detailed. Review each measure with your staff to understand how
your practice can meet the measure requirements and what data is
needed, where the data needs to be recorded and by whom. All
discrete data needed to report compliance to the Meaningful Use
Measures resides in the Face sheet in simplifyMD
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Monitoring Compliance to MU Measures The reporting tools for
monitoring the Physicians compliance to the MU measures can be
preset in your sMD application by our Customer Support Department.
You simply have to send an email to [email protected]
requesting the reports, specifying the providers name and the time
period desired. [email protected] Your reports will be under
Tools/Reports/Patients/ Clinical Quality Measures in your sMD
application The reports will keep an ongoing tally of compliance if
the time period extends into a future date. If the time period
requested is in the past, the report will be static.
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Clinical Quality Measures
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions The simplifyMD
application 12.0 AND 12.1 CCHIT certification is 30000004SBPEEAK
The Eligible Provider may have someone else register and attest to
MU on the CMS website The Patient Health Record (PHR) portal
satisfies the requirement for the health record to be provided in
an electronic format In sMD, Patients are automatically given a
label when they are given access to the PHR and when they have 2 or
more appointments.
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (Cont.) Detailed
information regarding transmission of syndromic and immunization
data can be found on sMD University under Meaningful Use /
Attestation. You may go to https://questions.cms.gov/ for more
information.https://questions.cms.gov/