- Provider for Medicare or Medicaid;
- Be a meaningful EHR user
- Physicians must qualify
- Proves to have implemented a qualified EHR software and be interoperable
Physicians with a qualified EHR, qualified EMR in place before 2011 or 2012 will be eligible for the maximum Medicare incentive payments allowed by the stimulus package. Doctors who have not adopted an EHR before 2015 and who fail to obtain a hardship exemption will see a 1% cut to Medicare pay, a reduction that phases up to 3% for 2017 and remains each year after that.
In 2011, however, the reward for e-prescribing will begin to decrease, a fee for not using e-prescribing will begin in 2012. The e-prescribing incentive payment will be 1 percent in 2011 and 2012, and 0.5 percent in 2013. The fee for not using e-prescribing will be a reduction in Medicare reimbursement by 1 percent in 2012, 1.5 percent in 2013, and 2 percent in 2014.
Depreciation and Expenses 2009
Section 179 limits. The maximum expense deduction you can elect for qualified property you placed in service in tax years that begin in 2009 remains at $250,000 ($285,000 for qualified enterprise zone property and qualified renewal community property). This limit is reduced by the amount by which the cost of property placed in service in the tax year exceeds $800,000
Under the 2008 Economic Stimulus Act (ESA), you can take further advantage of the Section 179 expense allowance to write off the entire cost of your new and used Healthcare equipment purchases in 2008.
Specifically, the expense allowance has been temporarily increased from $128,000 to $250,000 for taxpayers with total capital investments of $800,000 or less. Equipment acquired with a capital lease ($1 purchase option) and placed into service by December 31, 2008 is eligible for the increased allowance.
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EMR/EHR MediNotes e Features & Support
If you are looking for a different approach to Medinotes e Support and Peak Practice support, feel free to give us a call.
With so many electronic medical record systems on the market today, it’s difficult to wade through the features and functionality of each system to make sure that it fits the needs of your busy practice. MediNotes e has been specifically designed to stand out in the market, with a design that eliminates navigation and makes multi-tasking a reality.
While other EMR's are confusing and require your staff to migrate for screen to screen for the right information, MediNotes e is a fresh new EMR design which utilizes a “tab” concept for simplicity and ease of navigation. Just as tabbed browsing is improving multi-tasking for internet users, tabs in electronic medical records allow you to multi-task like never before. MediNotes e can display multiple patients, encounter notes, workflow items, patient flow, messages, alerts, and more, all in accessible tabs within the MediNotes e shell.
MediNotes e is “simply the right choice” because it has been designed for flexibility. Instead of forcing you to change your work processes, it molds to your practice and lets you decide how workflow and processes should be done.
The entire program has been broken into just four convenient views: Practice View, Patient View, Document View and Object View. Each section contains pertinent information in an easy to utilize hierarchical tree.
Practice View is a global view of the events occurring within the practice. It allows your staff to review all of your: Patient/Practice Alerts, Messages, Patientflow, pending lab results from reference laboratories, pending histories from Instant Medical History, automated tasks and more.
Practice View includes:
- Patient Flow - Waiting Room and Rooms
- Today's Patients
- Practice Alerts
- Incomplete Notes
- Audit
- Health Maintenance
- Pending History
- Object Query
- Pending Labs
- Mailbox
- Work List Tasks
- Notes Without Bills (Billing Manager)
MediNotes e is able to display multiple patients at a time, each with their own color coded tab. Patient View screens can be completely customized by the office with the data panels of your choosing. Panels can be organized into nurse intake screens or comprehensive display screens. The MediNotes e Panel Summary can be used to create printed patient summary sheets based on the custom panel data.
Patient View includes:
- Panel Summary
- Tasks
- Problem List
- Messages
- Alerts
- Health Maintenance
- Vitals
- Chief Complaints
- Remarks
- History
- Allergies
- Family History
- Genetics
- Medication History
- Obstetric History
- Past Medical History
- Review of Systems
- Surgeries
- Social History
- Diagnoses
- Treatments
- Growth Charts
- Pregnancies
- Lab Results
- Notes
- To Do
- Multimedia
- Documents
- Prescription
- Patient Instructions
- Patient Letters
- Orders
- Billing Statement
- Referral Letters
This global view enables your office to quickly filter all of your MediNotes e documents (by document type, provider or date) and then print to the specific printer settings designated for that document type.
Document View includes:
- Comprehensive filtering - date range, provider, document type and specific patient
- Document specific print controls
- Print quantity tracking
- Select All/Unselect All
MediNotes e remains the most customizable electronic health record on the market. The Object View gives you the opportunity to review, customize and save templates and examination dialogs in one convenient area.
Object View allows the practice to customize and add:
- Templates
- Data Objects
- Health Maintenance schedules
- Patients
- Referral Physicians
- Rooms
- Locations
- Workflow Definitions
- Problem List
HIPAA Certified
- Certified for HIPAA regulations by the HIPAA Academy
- Audit trails to denote what changes have been made to patient records, and by whom
- Program access based on user license levels
- Password security
- Automatic program logout after a period of inactivity
Lab results from Quest can now be imported directly into the lab results area of MediNotes e via the Quest interface.
Lab results from LabCorp can now be imported directly into the lab results area of MediNotes e via the LabCorp interface.
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Medical Software | Practice Management Software | Medical Scheduling Software | Telephony Reminder Software - ReminderPro | Medical Billing Software | Electronic Medical Records Software | EMR Software / EHR Software | Telephony Lab System | Medical Billing Service
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