With vaccination now (or soon) available to healthcare workers under EUA, medical practices should be thinking about their policies regarding vaccination of office staff. Here are some key questions you should consider – having policies in place will protect you from potential problems.

There are a number of MIPS critical deadlines coming up end of year, and others in the first part of 2021. The deadline to request re-weighting of any or all MIPS categories for Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances has just been extended due to the pandemic until February 1, 2021 at 8PM EST. (In ‘normal’ years, that

May you, your family and your staff stay healthy and have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

This White Paper was written by NextGate and published by HealthIT Answers. Data driven tools are leveraged to confidently identify individuals at enhanced risk of contracting COVID-19, and experiencing poorer outcomes from the virus. Using a combination of population health management strategies and patient identity

The practice manager from small private practice, operations director from a large private practice, and the VP of ambulatory operations for a large medical system shared their insights recently on how they restored patient visits to pre-COVID levels without compromising on the extra safety measures put in place.

The phase1 application period had closed (on June 3rd), but there is now a phase2 application period, open until August 28th. HHS will again allow practices to apply for grants equal to 2% of total 2019 medical revenues under the PRF (Provider Relief Fund) program.