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2024 MIPS Updates: What You Need to Know

New changes to the Quality Payment Program’s (QPP) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) may impact how you manage your practice and its billing processes.

The MIPS categories — quality, cost, promoting interoperability, and improvement activities — will remain the same for calendar year 2023, but each category includes updates that were issued in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule.

Here, we’ll review some of the key changes that may impact ModMedⓇ clients.
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Leaving Legacy EHR Systems Behind

Is your OBGYN practice still running on outdated, disparate, legacy software systems? Are you logging in and out of multiple platforms all day, manually transferring sensitive data back and forth? Have your software vendors stopped issuing regular security updates, leaving you more vulnerable to cyber attacks? If so, you’re not alone. And while it may seem like a daunting task, switching your practice to a more efficient, more streamlined, all-in-one solution could benefit you and your team.

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8 Ways Gastroenterologists Can Drive Efficiency in Challenging Times

In today’s challenging healthcare landscape, gastroenterologists may be grappling with ways to build operational efficiency and streamline financial processes.

Finding ways to limit wasted time and improve workflows is paramount to running a smooth practice. Software like gGastro® can offer solutions, empowering gastroenterology practices to do more in less time, even when staffing resources are limited.+

Here, we’ll share a few ways you can take greater control of your practice.

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5 Things to Do When Your EHR is Sunsetting

If your current electronic health record (EHR) vendor is “sunsetting,” or retiring some or all of its software features, you may need to take action to maintain business continuity and compliance. Healthcare evolves at an exponential rate, so physicians and staff may find it challenging to find an EHR system that truly fits the unique needs of their practice.

One way to streamline your shopping is with an all-in-one EHR. It’s easier to manage your practice and maintain a focus on quality care w
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EHR Implementation Checklist: What It’s Like to Switch to ModMed

For physicians considering switching EHRs, ModMed offers a clear implementation path, so your practice can plan, prepare and deploy effectively. During each implementation phase, you’ll receive guidance and support that includes extensive interaction with ModMed onboarding staff.

While each practice’s implementation may vary by specialty, complexity and individual needs, you can expect our team to support you as you move continuously from one step to the next.

Our goal is to deliver efficiency
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The Three C’s of Pay: Give Your Patients the Payment Options They Deserve

Remember the days of holding up the supermarket checkout line while you hand-wrote a check to pay for your groceries? Then you had to manually record the check number, payee and amount in your check register? And who could forget the dreaded evenings spent sifting through receipts and records, balancing your checkbook every month?

Fortunately, the days when patients were limited to writing and mailing checks to pay for a trip to the doctor are long gone.

These days, most people probably don’t
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Gastroenterology EHR Data Analytics: The Top 12 Reports Every Practice or ASC Needs

KPIs help practice administrators understand how their business is performing at any given time, so they can make informed decisions. Gastroenterology data analytics can also measure quality at a patient level and a procedure level, helping administrators see where there are opportunities to improve. Yet, many gastroenterology offices and ASCs lack the resources, including staff and integrated software, to analyze the data across all aspects of the business. Instead, they are left to put the pie
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Healthcare Staff Retention: Tips to Retain Your Best Employees

Coming up to the second anniversary of COVID-19, about 100 exasperated nurses and staff gathered on a Pittsburgh bridge to demonstrate, calling on hospitals to address rampant staffing shortages, as colleagues were quitting their jobs faster than they could be replaced. Stretched thin, one respiratory therapist — from a team of 39 that used to be 64 — captured the mood: “You know that you’re not able to give all the time that you want to, and that just eats away at you as a caregiver.”1

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6 Ways the Consumerization of Healthcare Is Changing the Game for OBGYN Practices

The consumerization of healthcare is all we seem to hear about these days. And for good reason: It’s transformed our interactions with patients and created more competition in the marketplace. The focus has shifted back where it should be, with patients. But still, questions remain, like how can you meet rising patient demands, and still have a successful OBGYN practice? In this blog we’ll go over the ways the consumerization of healthcare has changed OBGYN patient expectations — and what you ca
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Urology Coding Do’s and Don’ts: Guidelines For Best Practices

There are three main categories1 to consider when performing CPTⓇ coding for urology: Evaluation and Management (E/M) Codes, Procedure Codes, and Add-on Codes.
• E/M Codes: E/M stands for Evaluation and Management codes. These are used to bill professional services such as physician and nonphysician practitioner clinic visits, hospital visits or consultations, most commonly found between 99202 and 99499.
• Procedure Codes: These codes refer to those used to bill for diagnostic and treatment serv
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Best Practices for Onboarding Physicians in Healthcare

It’s tough to be the new guy. Think about the immense amount of pressure on the shoulders of any physician starting at a new practice: new colleagues and staff to meet, a brand new roster of patients and an entirely new EHR system to learn. Regardless of the size of your practice, that is a daunting process for anyone to undergo. Here are some onboarding best practices to ensure healthcare providers experience a smooth transition into their new environment.

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gGastro ERW

The easy-to-use gGastro ERW from gMed® and Modernizing Medicine® Gastroenterology is designed to help you document procedures quickly and efficiently, while also providing detailed quality measure data. As part of the all-in-one gGastro suite, it integrates seamlessly with our gastroenterology EHR software, so you can access both your clinical and endoscopy records within the same system. By providing you with existing information from the gGastro EHR at the time of the procedure, our integrated
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MOMENTUM 2023 | Our Premier Users Conference | ModMed®

Thank you to all who attended our MOMENTUM 2023 users conference and business wellness event in Orlando! It was wonderful to connect with you in person, and we hope you returned home feeling rejuvenated, reinvigorated and ready to restore balance in your practice, your team and yourself.

Mark your calendars because we’ve already started planning MOMENTUM 2024, and we can’t wait to show you what we have in store for you next year. Hope to see you there!
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Design Lab

Understanding patient history is important, especially when you are following patients with chronic conditions.

Join us for an interactive session to uncover the easiest way to locate, navigate and utilize this data, inside our timeline, to complement the patient care you provide.

You gave us feedback, and we listened. We have improved the Order Tests workflow inside EMA to make it easier and more efficient to order labs.


Join us for a demonstration of the new design and share your though

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