Archive for February, 2009

Medisoft Clinical And Our Interpretation Of Physician EHR Software Reimbursement In Obama 2009 Economic Stimulus Plan and Medisoft Clinical

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Medicare will use both carrot and stick approach to reward EMR\EHR adoption, and to penalize non-adoption.

Incentives include up to $64,000 + for early adopters of EHR Software.  Penalties estimate up to 3-5% of medicare billings.

Four critical aspects of the bill include:
1- Elegibile Professional; (under medicare provisions of the bill, an elegibile professional is a doctor of medicine or ostepoathy; dentists; podiatrists; optometrists; chiropractors).
2- Not be hospital based;
3- Demonstrate “Meaningful Use” of an EHR software.  To be left up to discretion of HHS Secretary, but expected to include e-prescribing, interoperability, clinical reporting,
4- Certified EHR program. - yet to be determined by HHS Secretary, but exptected to include CCHIT certification.

Incentives will be allowed thru two provisions:
1-Medicare incentives
2-Medicaid incentives
But NOT BOTH.  No incentives after 2016.  Up to 10% additional reimbursements for physicians in “physician shortage areas”.

Physicians who demonstrate “meaningful use” in first two years receive a $3,000 bonus.

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Legal Disclaimer - this post represents our own interpretation and should verified with your legal and accounting staff or consultants.

Medisoft EMR Clinical Charting Software

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Medisoft EMR Clinical is available now.  Medisoft Clinical or Medisoft EMR is a combination of electronic medical records software and medical billing software, all working together and is amazingly affordable.  (Base software price for both Medisoft medical billing software and Medisoft Clinical is under $7,000, not includling hardware, training, project management, installation and other associated costs)

Now, over 80,000 Medisoft users and other single to small practice doctors can an award winning combination of emr software and electronic medical records software (or electronic health record as some call it), and medical billing software with one patient list that can be imported from Medisoft into Medisoft clinical.

Experience the best of both software’s with a combined Practice Management/Electronic Health Record Software solution that enables your medical office to easily perform common work flow tasks like:
*Sharing patient demographic info between programs to eliminate redundant double data entry
*Seamlessly inform your nurse in the patient exam room area when that patient is ready for his/her appointment now to save staff efficiency
*Creating a unique electronic superbill or encounter form that is populated with the appropriate ICD-9 and  CPT-4 codes based on the doctor’s SOAP notes

Also;

Ensure  Patient safety:  Electronic prescribing (via SureScripts® and RxHub®) improves patient safety.

Maximize efficiency: Unlike other EMR Software’s, Medisoft EMR Clinical features a unique note-centric design that allows physicians to complete the  entire chart from the progress note.

Enhance quality- Medisoft Clinical offers easy access to the information you need to ensure exceptional care.

Physician tools: • Analyze the note with a sophisticated coding advisor for Evaluation and Management codes