by Gary Pritts | Nov 15, 2018 | General News, Physician Practices
New for the Merit-Based Improvement Payment System (MIPS) in 2018 is the opportunity for small practices (15 or fewer eligible professionals) to claim a “significant hardship exception” for the Promoting Interoperability (formerly Advancing Care Information)...
by Gary Pritts | Nov 15, 2018 | General News, Physician Practices
As 2018 comes to a close, and we get ready to report, eligible clinicians need also be preparing for 2019 and the changes it will bring for their practice. Practices should be on the lookout for the following: Weight: Comprising 60 percent of the final score beginning...
by Gary Pritts | Nov 13, 2018 | General News, Physician Practices
CMS published its 2019 MIPS rule on November 1, 2018. Each year, succeeding with MIPS becomes progressively harder. Eagle Consulting is providing a resource, a redlined version of this MIPS rule showing changes from the previous year. Our intent is to aid...
by Gary Pritts | Oct 25, 2018 | General News, Threat Intelligence
The FBI just published a Public Service Announcement alerting organizations to a drastic rise in “gift card” Business Email Compromise (BEC) incidents. I have heard from Eagle clients who recently experienced this type of attack, so we want to make sure...
by Gary Pritts | Aug 14, 2018 | General News
The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities recently announced a HIPAA compliance review of the County Boards of Developmental Disabilities. In the email contacting the initial group of county boards to be reviewed, Michelle Burk of DODD describe the audit as...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 30, 2018 | Physician Practices
42 CFR Part 2 is a federal law aimed at protecting the confidentiality of substance abuse patient records. It is more restrictive than HIPAA in numerous ways, so you have to be careful with these records should you receive them. Under 42 CFR Part 2, the restrictions...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2018 | General News, Large Providers, Physician Practices
As we are moving through through year 2 of the MIPS program, it is imperative that eligible clinicians simultaneously prepare for the next few years and the prospective changes to come. With the release of the proposed rule for 2019, participants can get a sense of...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2018 | Large Providers, Physician Practices
There are four categories to the 2018 MIPS program: quality, promoting interoperability (formerly advancing care information), improvement activities, and the cost category. Though seemingly new to the program for 2018, the cost performance category was being tracked...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2018 | General News, Large Providers, Physician Practices
Eligible clinicians and groups that participated in MIPS performance year 2017 can now view their final scores as well as review the calculation of their 2019 payment adjustment. Per the MIPS regulation, the final scores received for performance year 2017 will dictate...
by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2018 | Business Associates & Others, Health Information Technology, HIPAA, Large Providers, Physician Practices
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) published its Guidance titled “Guidance on Software Vulnerabilities and Patching”, in its June 2018 newsletter. In this Guidance, OCR stated that “identifying and mitigating the...
