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- In This Issue:
- Quality Payment Program News
- Windows End of Life Notice
- E-Rx Formats Updated...and MORE
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New Features, Updates and More
STI is continually working to improve our products and services for our clients. To ensure you're up to date on all of our new releases, we document these changes on our release highlights page. This will give you access to timely updates on the latest features, fixes and more for ChartMaker® Medical Suite. For a complete overview of these updates, please see our release highlights page for Practice Manager, Clinical and ChartMaker® Mobile.
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Quality Payment Program News
- CMS recently published a blog post and released an infographic to share preliminary participation data for the Quality Payment Program during 2018. Key findings include an increase in participation rates between 2017 and 2018 from 95 percent to 98 percent, respectively. In addition, the participation rate of small practices increased from 81% in 2017 to almost 90% in 2018. Read more about these statistics on the CMS website.
- Clinicians who participated in MIPS in 2018 can now access their 2018 performance feedback by logging in to the Quality Payment Program website. If you believe an error has been made in your 2018 performance feedback and 2020 MIPS payment adjustment factor(s) calculation, you will have the opportunity to request a targeted review until September 30, 2019.
End-of-life for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2
- July 9th, 2019 marked the end-of-life for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2. End-of-life means that Microsoft will no longer offer security patches for that version. Although, SQL Server 2008 R2 will continue to function, the significance to a medical practice of the end-of-life for any Microsoft product is the concern over HIPAA compliance. With no more security patches, new security vulnerabilities that are discovered potentially create an added risk of a data breach. To read more about how the end-of-life for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 can affect your office, read our latest blog post.
Electronic Prescribing Formats Updated
The ChartMaker Medical Suite has been updated to use the latest NCPDP 2017071 schema format for electronic prescribing of medications. This format change affects not only electronically prescribing of new medications (both controlled and non-controlled substances), but also renewing medications, cancelling prescriptions, as well as processing medication changes and refill requests. With these changes various updates have been made throughout the Clinical system that allows improved and easier workflows. Do note, however, as in the past, some workflows may continue to be limited for a given pharmacy until that participating pharmacy upgrades its software to the latest schema format. In those situations, the ChartMaker® Medical Suite will advise you on how to handle prescription renewals or refill requests. For further information regarding the changes made to Clinical system as it relates to the NCPDO 2017101 schema format update, see our release highlights page.
No Fault and Workers Compensation Electronic Claim Submission
Your office will soon be able to submit No Fault and Workers Compensation claims electronically via Change Healthcare! The deadlines for mandatory electronic submission are:
New Jersey
No Fault: 09/01/2019
Workers Compensation: 11/21/2019
New York
No Fault: No Deadline
Workers Compensation: 01/01/2020
Even if your state does not require electronic submission – you can still send these claims electronically. We will notify you once the program is ready with this feature.
Please note that Change Healthcare is our chosen vendor for No Fault and Workers Compensation claim submission. We will NOT support any other vendor that offers this service. If you have any questions, please contact Practice Manager Support at 1-800-487-9135.
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The Latest From Our Blog...
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How Ransomware Threatens Your Medical Practice
There is a new kind of virus affecting physicians and it’s not the measles. Malicious ransomware software like the Crypto Locker virus can wreak havoc to a physician’s computer information to the point of making it unusable and creating a potential financial crisis for the practice. Just like a medical virus, a computer virus can be avoided by taking careful steps, but never eradicated. Learn what steps and precautions your practice should take to avoid Ransomware viruses and more ...
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Provider Complete Tips
Are You Adding or Deactivating Providers from Provider Complete? Don’t Forget to Notify STI! It is important to keep STI up to date when you have a provider change in your office. Are you using the Provider Complete on-line support tools to assist your office in managing your claim submissions? The Customer Portal (Vision) replaces the paper reports, and allows you to easily track claims online from submission through payment. To learn more about these tips, visit our blog.
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