Meaningful Use

A Step-by-Step Guide to Surviving a Meaningful Use Audit

Download FREE How to Prepare For and Survive a MU Audit Guide   ENT practices face several levels of potential Meaningful Use audits as part of the Medicare/Medicaid EHR incentive programs. The providers must demonstrate Meaningful Use through core measures, menu measures, and clinical quality (including the reporting of numerator, denominator, and exclusions). Additionally, providers must save the documents used to make the attestation for at least six years as evidence to substantiate the audit. Most experts conclude that preparation is…

Three Ways a Meaningful Use Audit Can Help Your ENT Practice Become More Efficient

Download FREE How to Prepare For and Survive a MU Audit Guide   An ENT practice may include ENT physicians, neuro-otologists, surgeons, audiologists, technicians, IT professionals, and others. The successful ENT practice typically involves many transitions and referrals. Manual performance of the thousands of tasks facing an ENT practice could overwhelm a large staff. For instance, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says that: About 25 percent of patients seen by a physician or surgeon in the office or in…

Three Ways to Get Your Patients to Engage With Your Patient Portal

Meaningful Use has been around for the past four years but healthcare entities are still struggling to attest to meaningful use. One of the primary challenges has to do with the patient engagement requirements laid out in MU. For instance, Stage One required that medical entities get at least 10% of all the patients they see during the period to at least once log into the EHR system after leaving the premises and review their details. Physicians complained that this…

Three Things You Need to Know about ICD-10 as an ENT

Come October, ICD-9 will be retired and ICD-10 will become the new gold standard in medical reporting. There’s a lot of information available on ICD-10 across the Internet which may be contributing to more confusion than help, especially when it comes to how it will affect various specialties within the medical community. As an ENT, ICD-10 will definitely affect you and your practice. Here are five things you need to know about ICD-10: Download ICD-10 FAQ Guide Here It’s Mandatory…