If your office provides immunizations to patients, you must start reporting to your county Immunization Registry through your EHR for Meaningful Use. You will need to register with your County Registry and send the information back to us so that we may set up this interface for you.

Please click here to search for your county on the CA Dept of Public Health Information Exchange Gateway. Under Immunization Reporting, please register with your county's registry as soon as possible. Select "Site will submit data via a distinct Sending Facility" when registering.

Once your registration is complete, forward your confirmation email from your Immunization Registry site to Train@primeclinical.com. Please include your client ID, client name, contact person, and contact phone number. Prime Clinical will need this information to store in your PCM in order for your clinic to send your immunization data to your Immunization Registry. Without this information, you will not qualify for the Immunization Registry Meaningful Use measure.

If you have any questions, email Train@primeclinical.com and include your client ID and contact information. Thank you.

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Whenever communicating with any of our PCS Team members, please remember to always have your Client ID available. If you and your staff choose to use send an email to Support@PrimeClinical.com, or add references via Intellect or PCM, it is important for us to know who in your office needs to be contacted. As a reminder, please include your Client ID, contact person, and contact email or phone.

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, Prime Clinical is continuing to complete IDC-10 testing and we urge you, our clients, to keep preparing for the ICD-10 change.

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CMS 'Road to 10' Webcasts

CMS invites you to visit their www.roadto10.org website to view newly released webcasts on preparing for ICD-10. Once on their website, click on the "Webcasts" tab located in the left-hand navigation bar to access these webcast options:

Click "Specialty Documentation Webcasts", and scroll to the specialty of your choice to hear an AHIMA-certified coder present on unique ICD-10 clinical documentation needs and hot topics for each specialty, such as:

• Physician perspective/clinical impact of ICD-10

• Documentation requirements for certain conditions

• Documentation changes and new concepts

• Use of "unspecified" codes in ICD-10

Click on "Road to 10 Series" which provides an overview of ICD-10 and answers the questions:

• What is ICD-10?

• What do I need to do to prepare?

• What resources and tools are available?

• How do I use the delay to move forward with ICD-10?

How is the Health Care Community Progressing on eHealth?

CMS has released an infographic featuring the health care community's progress on different aspects of eHealth, including Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs, accountable care organization (ACOs), the physician quality reporting system (PQRS), the ICD-10 transition on October 1, 2015, and electronic funds transfer (EFT).

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EHRs, Meaningful Use Improve Patient Safety, Medical Errors

Electronic health records have the ability to improve patient safety, raise care quality, and reduce potentially serious medical errors, the ONC said during a Health IT Week presentation.

60 Days of Uncertainty -

Understanding the ACA's
90-Day Grace Period

Missed TriZetto Provider Solutions' August 20th webinar "60 days of uncertainty: Understanding the Affordable Care Act 90-Day Grace Period"? Not to worry. Catch the replay of the webinar to learn what you can do to improve your collections under the new healthcare programs.

The webinar featured health care policy expert and federal lobbyist Jennifer Searfoss, J.D., C.M.P.E., CEO of Searfoss Consulting Group who explored the 90-day grace period - a challenging and often misunderstood provision of the Affordable Care Act.

Listen to the replay to learn:

• The implications and rules of the 90-day premium payment policy

• How to identify which patients the policy impacts

• Practical solutions for mitigating your financial risk and combating bad patient debt if patients ultimately fail to catch up on their premiums

To access the recorded August 20, 2014 webinar, go to www.gatewayedi.com/news and click on Webinar: 60 Days of Uncertainty.

Knowing Why Claims Are Being Denied
Will Help You Get Paid

Performing an audit on your denials will provide a clear picture of where you need to focus your attention in the billing process.

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7 Principles that Can Help
Stressed-Out Physicians

Physicians are busy. They often have little time for friends and family, have no time for the community, and seldom feel as though they have covered all their bases. Their lives have way too much in common with a hamster in a wheel.

Still, there are some things physicians can do to experience improved work-life balance. Here are seven principles to keep in mind next time you feel like your sense of balance is spiraling out of control:

1. Acknowledge and accept the fact that time is limited and there is no way to create more.

2. Accept the fact that there will never be enough time.

3. Be intentional about the use of time, and be aware that it involves choices as well as decisions.

4. Abandon guilt about what is not getting done.

5. Seek alternate resources.

6. Refuse to be bullied.

7. Do not engage in self-bullying.

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STAGE 2 PREPARATION

Meaningful Use

Immunization Registry Information

YOU MUST REGISTER ASAP