Numbers Game
True or False
Straight to the Core
Dive in for MU
Acronyms
100
In 2013, how many core objectives must an Eligible Provider meet?
14
100
Providing patients with an electronic copy of their medical records upon request is an MU Core Objective?
True
100
Is recording vital signs a Meaningful Use Core Measure?
Yes
100
Can height and weight be patient reported?
Yes
100
CMS
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
200
How many Clinical Quality measures must be met?
6
200
The Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) for tobacco use only requires asking the patient if they smoke?
False. This is a 2 part CQM, it must include both tobacco use and cessation intervention.
200
What is the threshold for the "Maintain an Up To Date Problem List" objective?
80%
200
Name one media format that the EP can provide as an electronic form of a patient's health information
PDF, Thumb drive/jump drive, CD, secure email
200
EMR/EHR
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record
300
What is the time frame for providing a patient with a clinical summary (AVS)?
Within 3 business days of the date of service
300
The provider needs to include height and weight in the vital section on each encounter in order to fulfill the MU requirement?
False, needs to be entered for each unique patient.
300
What demographic elements need to be recorded in order to meet the MU Core Objective?
Preferred language, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Date of birth.
300
Are mid -level providers (NP’s and PA’s) eligible for incentive dollars under Medicare?
No, NP’s are eligible under Medicaid and PA’s are eligible if they work in a Federally Qualified Health Center.
300
CPOE
Computerized Physician Order Entry
400
What is the Meaningful Use exclusion for reporting CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry)?
Less than 100 Rx's during the reporting period
400
Just owning an EMR is enough to earn Medicare incentive dollars? True or false?
False, you must demonstrate that you are Meaningfully Using an EMR in order to receive an incentive payment through Medicare.
400
If a patient declines with the reporting of demographic information, what can the registrar do?
The registrar should document that the patient refused to provide this information.
400
Name 2 menu objectives
Drug Formulary checks, Incorporate clinical labs/test results, generate patient lists by condition, send reminders to patients, patient specific eduaction resources, Med rec, summary of care, electronic access for pts to health information, submit electronic data to immunization registries, syndromic surviellence
400
EP
Eligible Professional
500
What percentage of the EP's patient population must be office based in order to be eligible for Medicare incentive payments?
More than 10% EPs must demonstrate that they are not a hospital based EP (furnishes 90% or more of their covered services in the Inpatient (21) or Emergency Dept (23) of a hospital)
500
An EP can receive incentive payments from both Medicare and Medicaid in the same reporting period
False. If an EP meets the requirements of both programs they must choose to receive an EHR incentive payment under one program, but they can switch between programs once before 2015.
500
Name one Menu Objective that will become a core objective in 2014
All of them
500
Name three pieces of information required to register for Medicare MU.
NPI, NPPES (National Plan and Provider Enumeration System), ID and Password, A PECOS enrollment, TIN, SSN, EHR Certification number
500
PHI
Protected Health Information
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