- 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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Practice Management System - Workflow
Patient Registration 
One single keyboard touch brings you the Patient Registration screen. Speed up new registrations, quickly access current patient information demographic, financial, provider, chart location, etc., and reduce errors (duplicate entries, etc.)
Appointment Scheduling 
One single keyboard touch brings you the entire scheduling. Easy to navigate, simple to manage, scheduling includes viewing by provider, multi-provider and location with time options from daily to weekly to monthly.
Accounts Receivable Billing 
One single keyboard touch brings you the A/R for a patient. While we could list the many features of our powerful A/R Billing, we’d rather talk about how all that functionality simply makes the task of managing your A/R simple and efficient, whether you need to set up multiple A/Rs or easily report on batch details or set automatic decrementing.
Appointment Reminders and Lab Results Retrieval 
Not ready for a full patient system option but still want a powerful program for automating messaging and appointment reminders? Look no further than our appointment reminder confirmation system, and lab results retrieval by the same patient. Releasing you from the phone to remind/attend those patient calls.
By sending timely reminders to your patients using our electronic recall letters option, you can increase total visits while improving patient care. Patients appreciate your efforts in helping them maintain healthy lifestyles, resulting in greater patient loyalty. You can even customize the letters to suggest call times, thereby relieving pressure during front desk peak times.
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EncounterNotes provides you with the following EMR Software Products, Medical Billing Service, and technology Services
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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