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Is Your Data Safe?

Does Your Office Keep Track
of the Employee Contacts for Your Software? 

Many times we receive calls and emails requesting information regarding your organization from persons that are not authorized. Without a current contact list, no assistance can be provided so there will be a delay in solving your problem.

Prime Clinical Systems' policy is to protect your information. In order to maintain the safety of your data/information, you must always have a current contact list of users authorized to contact Prime Clinical on your organizations behalf. As your contacts change, please be sure to notify PCS Administration Department by submitting a letter, on your letterhead, signed by the 'owner', with the persons in your office that are authorized to contact PCS on your behalf.

All contact lists should be either be emailed administration@primeclinical.com or faxed 626-449-5615. Include your Client Id, and Subject Contact List.

2014 Meaningful Use Attestation  Instructions

- IMPORTANT REMINDERS -
Action May Be Required

CMS only requires that providers attest for a 90-day period in 2014. This is to allow EHR vendor time to complete their certification process and update clients to prepare for their 90 days. In order to attest for Meaningful Use in 2014, you must be updated to the 2014 Certified version of Patient Chart Manager (PCM). You must be update before starting your 90-day period. Click here for information and pointers for attesting in 2014.

CAIR Immunization Registry

If you will be reporting CAIR Immunization Registry for Meaningful Use, you will need to do the following.  Please click here to see if your county is accepting California Public Health Meaningful Use Capability. If your county is, please register with CAIR at http://cairweb.org/. Please select "Site will submit data via a distinct Sending Facility" when registering.

Once your registration is complete, please email your CAIR practice ID to Train@primeclinical.com and include your client ID, contact name, and contact phone number.  Prime Clinical will need this information to store in your clinic setup screen in order to send your information to CAIR. Without this information, you will not be able to send any information to CAIR for your Immunization Registry reporting. 

2014 Clinical Quality Measures

For 2014 only, all providers regardless of their stage of meaningful use, are only required to demonstrate meaningful use for a three-month EHR reporting period. Medicare providers can either report their CQMs for the entire year or select an optional three-month reporting period for CQMs that is identical to their three-month reporting period for meaningful use. Please select "Third Party Transmission" when registering. 

For Medicare providers, this 3-month reporting period is fixed to the quarter of either the fiscal or calendar (for EPs) year in order to align with existing CMS quality measurement programs, such as the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). CMS is permitting this one-time three-month reporting period in 2014 only so that all providers who must upgrade to 2014 Certified EHR Technology will have adequate time to implement their new Certified EHR systems.

Supporting Documentation: 2014 Clinical Quality Measure Tipsheet   

Calculate Your Incentive Payments

Click the box below to use CMS' EHR participation timeline to determine and calculate your incentive payments for both Medicare and Medicaid .

The timeline also assists in determining if you will be attesting for Stage 1 or Stage 2 Meaningful Use in 2014. 

Continue Preparing for ICD-10

Even though the ICD-10 compliance deadline has been moved to October 2015 (see following article for details), Prime Clinical is continuing to complete IDC-10 testing and we urge you, our clients, to keep preparing for the ICD-10 change.

ICD-10 Compliance Date

On April 1, 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) (Pub. L. No. 113-93) was enacted, which said that the Secretary may not adopt ICD-10 prior to October 1, 2015. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expects to release an interim final rule in the near future that will include a new compliance date that would require the use of ICD-10 beginning October 1, 2015. The rule will also require HIPAA covered entities to continue to use ICD-9-CM through September 30, 2015.

July ICD-10 End-to-End Testing Canceled: Additional Testing Planned for 2015

CMS planned to conduct ICD-10 testing during the week of July 21 through 25, 2014, to give a sample group of providers the opportunity to participate in end-to-end testing with Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and the Common Electronic Data Interchange (CEDI) contractor. The July testing has been canceled due to the ICD-10 implementation delay. Additional opportunities for end-to-end testing will be available in 2015.

ICD-10 Coding Basics Medicare Fee-For-Service National Provider Call

On Wednesday, June 4, at 1:30-3p.m. ET, the Medicare Learning Network will be hosting an ICD-10 Coding Basics National Provider Call targeted for medical codes, physicians, physician office staff, nurses and other non-physician practitioners, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, educators, system maintainers, laboratories, and all Medicare providers.

Register now, or see additional information.

5 Ways EHR Implementation Benefits Healthcare Providers

If an organization can get their EHR adoption right, they can expect a number of positive outcomes. Some carry clear, measurable implications for revenue and productivity. Others are less quantifiable, but not necessarily any less important to running a successful practice.

Examples include:

• Greater patient volume

• Revenue gains

• Faster cash flow

• Increased provider satisfaction

• Improved patient health and loyalty

For details, read the complete article by Greg Chittim, Director at Arcadia Solutions.

Southern CA New Employees

Please welcome our new trainer, Jenna De Leon, who comes to us with 7 years of experience in the Worker's Compensation industry, including operations management of work comp medical offices specializing in orthopedic surgery and pain management. She also has a background in IT and served in the military.

In our Hardware department, please also welcome Janio Gallo. Janio has 16 years of experience in network architectures, data security, support, administration, troubleshooting, and IT polices and procedures. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in Electronics from the Technical Institute of Havana, Cuba in 1998.

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Company Information

Since we began in 1983, Prime Clinical Systems has never looked back as a company. Thriving with the most energetic and knowledgeable employees, Prime Clinical continues to help practices achieve their goals of eliminating their paper charts and accomplishing quality and accuracy in patient care. We take great pride in the excellence that we stand for as a company and celebrate our achievements every day.

Prime Clinical Systems, Inc.

3675 E. Huntington Drive, Suite A

Pasadena, CA 91107

(626) 449-1705

www.primeclinical.com

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