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Entering Claim Adjustment Reason Codes
If you have experienced your electronic secondary claims being denied on Emdeon Vision with the following message or one similar, you will need to start using Claim Adjustment Reason Codes going forward. Message: Service Line COB Information: Invalid; the sum of all Service Line Paid Amounts plus the Service Line Adjustment Amounts for each payer…
Read MorePatient Education Goes Electronic
As the industry focuses more on patient education through quality payment programs such as MIPS your practice will need a way to distribute materials to your patients. The ChartMaker® PatientPortal is a great portal to facilitate this exchange. There are two ways to upload documents, depending on whether you want the information to be public…
Read MoreThe ePA Process Has Been Streamlined
We have been working hard to improve the Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) workflow over the last several months. In ChartMaker® Medical Suite 2016 version 6.1.5, we implemented a new eligibility request to occur upon chart open automatically, if the old one had different demographic data than currently exists in the chart. In version 6.1.7, we added…
Read MoreChartMaker® 2016 Software Release 6.1.7
Here are some of the main highlights in ChartMaker® Medical Suite 2016 (file version 6.1.7). To read a full list of enhancements, view the Release Notes. EPS File Confirmation Expand Where can I find it? To Do List (Practice Manager and Clinical) What do I need to know? The new To Do List notification will…
Read MoreCompletEPA® Updates to PBM and Payer Formulary Files
Released by Surescripts on 8/31/16 Updates to PBM and Payer Formulary Files to Drive an Improved User Experience As electronic prior authorization usage increases across the network, PBMs and payers now have better visibility into the drugs that are flagged for PA and the prescribing patterns for those drugs. This allows PBMs and payers to…
Read MoreCMS Allows You to Pick Your Pace for MIPS in 2017
Andy Slavitt, Acting Director of CMS, released a statement on September 8th outlining CMS’ plans for introducing the new set of programs collectively called Quality Payment Programs, which include MACRA and MIPS. The main focus of this communication was to highlight their plan to allow providers to pick their pace in which they adopt the…
Read MoreCompletEPA® Accelerator 16.4 Release Highlights
Released by Surescripts on 8/23/16 As part of Surescripts’ ongoing commitment to update and improve the CompletEPA Accelerator based on network activity and customer feedback, users will notice a few Accelerator changes in both the Staging and Production environments. Development changes for the 16.4 development period will be deployed to Staging on 9/1 and Production…
Read MorePreventing Inappropriate Transmission of “Test” e-Prescriptions
Released by Surescripts on 8/25/16 Surescripts has identified incidences in which network prescribers have sent “test” NewRx e-prescriptions in the live production environment to pharmacies. In all of these instances, prescribers did not actually intend for the pharmacy to dispense the prescribed medication orders. It is important to note that significant potential risks may arise…
Read MoreAnnouncing the ChartMaker® Mobile App
With the ChartMaker Mobile App, STI is intent on developing an EHR experience that serves the physician, rather than chasing government requirements. Designed from the start to provide features that you want, it breaks the electronic shackles that keep you at your desk. ChartMaker now truly goes with you, wherever you go, including when you’re…
Read MoreICD-10 Flexibilities to Expire October 1st
To ease the transition to ICD-10, Medicare allowed certain flexibility when coding based on specificity. Those flexibility exceptions will end as of October 1, 2016. “ICD-10 flexibilities were solely for the purpose of contractors performing medical review so that they would not deny claims solely for the specificity of the ICD-10 code as long as there…
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