There are a number of things you should know if your practice is planning a purchase of medical billing software and electronic health records. First, the incentives for making the switch will pay out for a full five years, but this is the final year for you to qualify and get the full payments provided under the law. If you procrastinate, you'll be giving up a hefty chunk of payments provided to qualifying health care practices that adopt technological expertise and put it to meaningful use.
If you're just getting started, it an be confusing and difficult to achieve meaningful use using Medisoft Clinical, Medisoft Practice Choice and/or Medisoft EHR. Understanding and following these tips can help you get up to speed and running more quickly and efficiently.
If you're just adopting the new technology for the first time, the way your office works will change dramatically. In response, your staff will have to make some adjustments to the new workflow. Once they get up to speed, however, they'll wonder how they ever did the job properly without the benefits provided by the Web-based solutions, in the cloud backups and integration offered by McKesson Practice Choice and other Medisoft products.
Why Adopt Standards?
The meaningful use incentive program is intended to move physicians toward adopting electronic health records (EHR) and ensuring that the data collected is shared securely among health care professionals. In addition to providing a direct benefit to your patients, adopting these standards lets you add to the body of knowledge about various medical conditions, patient populations and medical outcomes.
Who Should Apply for the Meaningful Use Incentives?
Governmental red tape can be cumbersome, but here's the bottom line: The incentives provided under the HITECH Act and the PPACA are meant for medical professionals and practices that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients. There are two separate programs with incentives for which you can qualify.
Benefits
If your practice qualifies for incentive payments under either of the programs, you'll qualify for payments for up to five years, with the largest payments in the first years. This year, 2012, is the last year that providers can receive the full incentive. Eventually, practices that participate in the Medicare program and don't show meaningful use of an EHR solution will be penalized by lower payments for their services. It's obviously in your best interest to be an early adopter and get your practice started using a robust, qualifying EHR and medical billing software solution.
McKesson, one of the most trusted names in medical billing software and electronic health records solutions, provides several EHR solutions that meet the standards for Meaningful Use incentives. Those choices include Medisoft Clinical, Medisoft EHR and McKesson Practice Choice, which also provides web-based solutions and in the cloud backups to keep you secure and always-accessible to your office practitioners and professionals.
Author Resource:
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the world's MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.
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