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Clinically Integrated Network Newsletter
August 19, 2020
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Please Join Us August 26th for our Next MSHP Town Hall
We will share the latest health system, clinical, and financial updates, including government practice support, vaccine developments, and more. We will also introduce our new web tool that helps you keep informed of your patients’ hospitalizations and ED visits. We encourage you to submit questions when registering and we will save time for Q&A discussion.
Wednesday, August 26th
6:00 – 7:30pm
Please note that in order to remain compliant with the CI Program requirements, you must attend at least one virtual or in-person meeting per year, and virtual Town Halls fulfill this obligation.
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Second Chance for Eligible Providers to Receive Relief Fund Payments
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that eligible providers can receive additional CARES Provider Relief Fund payments. This applies to providers who previously missed the June 3, 2020 deadline to apply for additional funding equal to 2 percent of their total patient care revenue from the $20 billion portion of the $50 billion Phase 1 General Distribution. Providers must meet these requirements and others as outlined by HSS and submit their application by August 28, 2020.
Additionally, for providers that received more than $10,000 in Provider Relief Funds, America’s Physician Groups is hosting a Special Webinar: How to Navigate the Reporting Requirements for the Provider Relief Fund on Tuesday, September 15 at 2:00 pm ET. Registration is available here.
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Sneak Peek! Clinical Event Notifications Coming Soon
Want to stay to up to date on your patients’ hospitalizations and ED visits? We have a new web tool that will push notifications to your email, mobile phone, or EMR. With this tool, you’ll be able to subscribe to clinical event notifications of ED/inpatient admission and/or discharge summaries for all of your attributed patients at Mount Sinai hospitals, as well as any hospital connected to the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY).
Watch your inbox next week for a communication announcing the new tool and how you can incorporate it into your practice to receive real-time clinical alert notifications.
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MSHP’s New Multidisciplinary Behavioral Health Workgroup
We understand there are issues and barriers with routine screening, triage, and connections to care for behavioral health conditions. To begin to overcome these obstacles, we have formed a multidisciplinary workgroup of CIN providers and MSHP staff to propose tangible solutions and discuss implementation efforts, maintaining a continuous feedback loop.
If you are interested in joining the workgroup or have any feedback, please contact the workgroup co-chairs:
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Director of Behavioral Health Population Management
Mount Sinai Health Partners
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Senior Medical Director of Population Health
Mount Sinai Health Partners
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Free COVID Antibody Testing from LabCorp
In response to federal calls for increased COVID-19 plasma donation, LabCorp will now perform the high-affinity antibody test at no charge to the patient, insurance company, or government over the next three months. Please note that this applies only to patients receiving other medically necessary blood tests as part of a medically necessary exam or treatment. To learn more, read this letter from LabCorp.
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Stay on Track to Complete Your CI Program Requirements
To ease the administrative burden during these difficult times, we are not requiring individual practices to submit quarterly quality data as a CIN requirement. As a clinically integrated network, however, MSHP is as committed as ever to continuous quality improvement, and remains financially accountable for quality performance. In this respect, practices are still expected to provide, when needed, data to support MSHP reporting of quality metrics for value-based contracts in a timely fashion.
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What to do with patients who refuse to mask?
More conversations waiting for your input
- Get to know your colleagues - introduce yourself!
- Share your tips and seek advice
- Join clinical care and practice management discussions
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Comprehensive Diabetes Eye Care
Review the quality measure description, best practices, and coding and documentation requirements to achieve this 2020 Star Measure with this handy guide.
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Bright Health: CMS to Conduct Health Outcomes Survey (HOS)
HOS is a patient-reported outcomes instrument that assesses providers’ abilities to maintain or improve their patient’s physical and mental health over time. The survey will assess monitoring physical activity, reducing risk of falling, and improving bladder control. Bright Health has prepared guidelines on actions you can take with your patients today in preparation for the HOS.
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UMR Top Tier Claims Submissions
UMR has suggested an alternate process for submitting claims. Providers participating in The Mount Sinai Health System Top Tier can use UMR-claimsubmission@umr.com only for initial and revised claim submissions, not for review or reconsideration of claims. Please call UMR customer service with any questions.
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Start Seeing Centivo Patients in September
Providers in Mount Sinai Health Partners’ Clinically Integrated Network will automatically be enrolled in a fee-for-service arrangement with Centivo on September 1, 2020. You do not need to sign an opt-in agreement to participate. Please advise your practice staff that Centivo members may be contacting your practice for appointments. Centivo is a new type of health plan entering the New York market that allows self-funded employers and clinicians to join forces to deliver high quality, affordable health care to their employees—at no cost for primary care. To learn more about claims submission, pre-certification, referral requirements, and rates, view these materials:
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Episode 30: Population Health in the Midst of COVID with Dr. Mark Gwynne
Dr. Fields reconnects with a former colleague, Dr. Mark Gwynne, President and Executive Medical Director of UNC Health Alliance, to share their respective network’s experiences with the coronavirus pandemic, specifically as it concerns delivering value-based care. They also share their thoughts on how changes in care delivery, if expanded, may benefit population health on a larger scale.
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For the Best Palliative and Geriatric Care, Choose Mount Sinai
For the fifth year in a row, The Mount Sinai Hospital has been listed on the “Honor Roll” in the US News & World Report “Best Hospitals” rankings. The Hospital maintained its ranking of No. 14 nationally, and had 11 specialties ranked in the Top 50.
Additionally, we are delighted to announce that this year, the Department of Geriatrics at The Mount Sinai Hospital was ranked No. 1 nationally. For the past decade, the Department’s personalized, innovative care has been ranked among the best in the nation. Congratulations to Dr. Sean Morrison, Chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and his team on this accomplishment.
Ready to refer patients? The Mount Sinai Health System offers palliative care through two practices; services are identical at both locations so choose the location most convenient for your patient.
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The Martha Stewart Center for Living at
The Mount Sinai Hospital
1440 Madison Ave
212-659-8552
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The Martha Stewart Center for Living at
Mount Sinai Union Square
10 Union Square, Suite 3G
212-463-0101
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Evidence-Based, Compassionate Substance Abuse Services
Refer patients with substance misuse challenges to the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai on the Upper West Side (Mount Sinai Morningside) or near Columbus Circle (Mount Sinai West) for non-stigmatized treatment in a safe, calming environment:
- Inpatient detoxification (we are licensed to use the full range of addiction medications to provide detoxification)
- Inpatient rehabilitation
- Residential Treatment (Halfway House)
- Outpatient rehab (5 days per week)
- Intensive outpatient (3 days per week)
- Office-based buprenorphine and addiction medicine (via both telemedicine and in person visits)
We will never turn patients away, and unlike many treatment programs, we will not remove patients from the program if they don’t stay sober. We also offer free COVID-19 testing to all patients prior to admission to inpatient detox or rehab.
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August 20: Multiple Myeloma Summit
Join Ajai Chari, MD, and colleagues at the Center of Excellence for Multiple Myeloma at The Tisch Cancer Institute for a live summit on multiple myeloma. Topics include frontline therapy in myeloma, relapsed/refractory myeloma, and CAR T-cell therapy and other novel therapies for myeloma. There is no cost to attend this virtual event.
Thursday, August 20th
6:00-7:30 pm
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P: 877-234-6667
F: 646-537-1481
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