At the Forefront of Healthcare Transformation
ILHITREC Interchange Newsletter
March, 2019
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Register Today for ILHITREC's Webinar on
"CPOE & e-Prescribe"
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Scheduled Tuesday, March 19
Noon-1 pm (CDT)
What You'll Learn:
- Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Electronic Prescribing (ePrescribe), while separate but related elements of the Medicaid PI Incentive Program, have requirements regarding the ordering of medication, radiology and lab orders.
- The expectation is that prescriptions are ordered electronically.
- This Webinar will discuss the elements and offer suggestions on how to meet Objectives 2 and 4 of the measures, as well as any exclusions available to
Eligible Professionals.
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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Improve Interoperability of Health Info
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently proposed a new rule to support seamless and secure access, exchange, and use of electronic health information (EHI). The proposed rule is designed to increase innovation and competition by giving patients and their healthcare providers secure access to health information and new tools, allowing for more choice in care and treatment. It calls on the healthcare industry to adopt standardized application programming interfaces (APIs), which will help allow individuals to securely and easily access structured EHI using smartphone applications. For more information including many informative Fact Sheets, visit the ONC website.
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CMS Advances Interoperability & Patient Access
to Health Data through New Proposals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed policy changes supporting its MyHealthEData initiative to improve patient access and advance electronic data exchange and care coordination throughout the healthcare system. The Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule outlines opportunities to make patient data more useful and transferable through open, secure, standardized, and machine-readable formats while reducing restrictive burdens on healthcare providers. In addition to the policy proposals, CMS is releasing two Requests for Information (RFIs) to obtain feedback on interoperability and health information technology (health IT) adoption in Post-Acute Care (PAC) settings, and the role of patient matching in interoperability and improved patient care. For more information, visit the
CMS website
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Riverside Healthcare Succeeds with ILHITREC Help
Kerri Lanum, Brenda Simms and Lauren Wiseman are all Clinical Informatics Specialists for the Illinois Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (ILHITREC), based at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. As specialists with ILHITREC, the team helps guide healthcare practitioners through the complicated and often-confusing Medicaid reimbursement and Electronic Health Records programs throughout Illinois outside of Chicago (now called Promoting Interoperability). A "success story" about Riverside Healthcare highlights the ways in which the team works with healthcare practices. The story is accessible via
ILHITREC's website.
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Updated 2019 Medicaid Specification Sheets
CMS has updated its Promoting Interoperability Programs webpages to include program year 2019 information and details:
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Understanding Medicaid PI Deadlines in 2019
CMS recently e-mailed information about a deadline extension for the Promoting Interoperability Program that may be confusing to Medicaid providers because it advises a March 14 deadline. That deadline is for Medicare, however. The
deadline in Illinois for Medicaid providers is March 31, 2019. Please refer to the table below (with link to HFS-Illinois details) for program deadlines.
Contact the Clinical Informatics Specialists at ILHITREC if you need further information:
info@ILHITREC.org
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Medicaid PI
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2018 program year attestation deadlines for Medicaid Eligible Professionals and Hospitals. For the CY2018 reporting period, eligible professionals and eligible hospitals must attest via the online eMIPP web application for the Illinois Medicaid Electronic Health Reporting Incentive Program by March 31, 2019. Visit the
HFS-Illinois website for more details and deadlines.
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Medicare PI
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Medicare Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Promoting Interoperability Program.
The deadline to submit 2018 attestation data for the Promoting Interoperability Programs is March 14, 2019. Participants should use the
QualityNet System
for hospitals that attest to CMS for the Promoting Interoperability Programs.
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Submit Patient Volume for Pre-Approval
for Medicaid EHR Program
ILHITREC encourages Illinois providers participating in the eMIPP program to submit patient volume for pre-approval for the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program as soon as possible to avoid any delays in attestation. Use the format below to provide the following information via email to
hfs.ehrincentive@illinois.gov:
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- Payee TIN = _________________
- Payee NPI __________________
- Group or individual numbers? _______________
- Provider type: (physician, hospital, dentist) _________________
- Selecting a Date Range: (Select Calendar Year 2017 only for Pre-Approval
- Date Range: Calendar Year, any 90-day period in 2017 ___________
- Can not use the same date or overlap date used for Attestation Year 2017
- Straight Medicaid (only traditional Medicaid & All Kids) = _______________
- Medicaid Managed Care = ________________
- Total Encounters for all payees = ________________
Primary Contact:
Primary Phone:
Primary Email:
Please note that ILHITREC's Clinical Informatics Specialists are trained to assist you with any questions or concerns related to the EHR Incentive Programs. Contact us at info@ILHITREC.org or visit ILHITREC.org for complete details on the wide variety of services provided by ILHITREC.
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Other Important Health IT News...
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About Support Provided by ILHITREC
The Illinois Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (ILHITREC), under contract with the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services (HFS), is providing education, outreach, EHR, and Meaningful Use support to Medicaid providers for the Promoting Interoperability Program. Contact us at info@ILHITREC.org.
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