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Financial Incentives for EHR
R&D MedTech
Who Is R&D Med Tech? R&D Med Tech is an Oklahoma Limited
Liability Corporation (LLC), located in Muskogee, Oklahoma that provides electronic health records software, services and support to physician practices.
The company was formed by 2 principals. Rob Raasch who has 15 years of experience as an executive in a publicly traded information technology services and management company. David Edwards has 40 years of experience including owning medical practices and medical office support companies.
In addition to the 2 principals, the company has employees who are experienced IT hardware and software professionals, certified trainers, help desk staff, experienced medical billing and collections professionals and a professional grant writer.
Why R&D MedTech and Why Greenway? R&D MedTech provides local maintenance, training,
help desk and hosting support.
Greenway Medical’s PrimeSuite earned “Best In KLAS” honors in 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009
So what is KLAS and why is it important for evaluating EHR software? KLAS measures performance of software, professional services, and medical equipment vendors. KLAS is like the Consumer Reports or J.D. Power rankings for EHR. KLAS is the only research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare’s information technology (HIT) vendors.
Greenway’s PrimeSuite was among the first EHRs to receive the 2011 Comprehensive CCHIT Certification in Ambulatory EHR from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).
Customer Base
PrimeSuite
Our flagship application uses a single database to integrate the clinical, financial and administrative processes of your practice.
This allows you to increase the quality of care you provide, enhance your patients satisfaction and maximize your practice’s profitability.
The single database integration of EHR, practice management and interoperability functionality eliminates errors caused by duplicate data and interface-type systems.
Template Summary
• Greenway has over 3000 Templates
• Over 30 Specialties and Subspecialties
• Developed by Board Certified Physicians
Training When practices look to "Go electronic", they reach for their most
common real-life experiences to guide them, cognitively, about "What is this going to take?" : For most people, that's installing some software on their computer.
The problem is, this experience is a poor model to understand EHR implementation : 1. It implies “This is something you can do with an instruction book and maybe a little help”. 2. It implies “This is something that is experienced at the computer, and the computer only.”3. It implies “It generally takes a week or two to 'get really good' at it.”
What it misses is : 1. EHR implementation means a THOROUGH examination of all of your clinical workflows and then in some cases, reorganizing them under a new electronic paradigm. 2. “Support” is NOT an instruction book, and NOT a 2-hour class, but a continuous, ongoing monitoring of physician, nurse, and practice management behaviors - And to achieve this requires an entire support mechanism of its own. 3. The 'learning curve' is often longer than anticipated.
R&D MedTech believes there is a higher probability for a successful implementation if training is delivered in person as opposed to over the web or from a CD. Our trainers are certified by Greenway after intensive classroom and shadowing experiences.
The $1.7M Opportunity of EHR
Type of Cost Savings/New Revenue Average Dollars Per Physicianover 5 years
Practice Process Improvements $216,300/$324,835 More Revenue Through Better
Coding$210,000
Malpractice Liability Insurance Discount
$25,000
E-Prescribe Stimulus (2009-2010) $6,000
PQRI Financial Incentives $50,000
Medicare/Medicaid Stimulus $44,000/$63,750
Tax Incentive $250,000
Clinical Trial Revenue $500,000
In-House Pharmacy Revenue $360,000
Total $1,769,835
R&D Guarantee Stimulus Eligibility: Our guarantee
removes the uncertainty that the Federal Stimulus Incentive Program has created about whether the Electronic Health Record (EHR) that your practice is selecting will meet the “meaningful use” and “certification” requirements under the HITECH Act.
Quality of Service: This Program guarantees Top quality training and support by certified trainers, and a fully functional solution with swift and professional implementation.
Meaningful Use
Use of a certified (CCHIT) EHR for patient care documentation and for e-prescribing
Connectivity to a health information exchange to help coordinate care with other providers
Submit claims electronically to payers Check insurance eligibility electronically
when possible Provide patients with timely electronic access to their health
information Provide patients, upon request, with an electronic copy of
their discharge instructions and procedures at the time of discharge
The ability to submit information on quality measures (A list of the current quality measures is available upon request)
Who is Eligible for Federal Stimulus Incentives?
Medicare Eligible Professional Defined -- Section 1861(r):
Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Osteopathy Doctor of Dental Surgery or
Dental Medicine Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Doctor of Optometry Chiropractor* (Spine
Subluxation)
Medicare Eligible Professional Incentives for Meaningful Use of Certified EHR
’09-10Learn/Install
$18k 2011 2012$12k $8k 2013
$4k $2k2014 2015Cumulative
Annual Penalty
Up to $44k
per provider
Physician must charge > $24K Medicare Part B in year one to
hit max incentive
Calendar Year
Medicare Penalties
2015 1% If Physician is e-prescriber2% If Physician is not e-prescriber
2016 2%
2017 and after
3%* If <75% of physicians have “meaningful use” by 2018, HHS has provisions in the law to allow increases to the penalties up to a max of 5%.
Who is Eligible for Federal Stimulus Incentives?
Medicaid Eligible Professional Defined --
Physician Dentist Certified Nurse Mid-wife Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant * (Rural
Health Clinic/ FQHC)
Medicaid Eligible Professional Incentives for Meaningful Use of a Certified EHR
2015
Medicaid Penalties for No EHR
0%Penalty
Reductions
*The Stimulus Package states Medicaid incentives could start as early as 2010 *Medicaid Incentives up to $63,750 for Uninsured, Rural, FQHC and Low-Income Providers/Eligible Professionals with a 30% Medicaid “population” or Pediatricians with at least a 20% Medicaid “population” . Pediatricians below 30% may be reimbursed at 2/3’s ($42,075) of the total allowable incentive.
Greenway Experience on Where Savings Are GeneratedA study revealed that an average four doctor practice is likely to recognize
cost savings of $183,945 added to its annual bottom line after implementing Greenway’s PrimeSuite EHR.
Statement Production $1,675Billing Procedures $14,090Management of Lab/Test Results $2,170Documenting Patient Encounters - Dictation, transcription $32,147Documenting Patient Encounters – Clerical $19,292Documenting Patient Encounters – Clinical $13,279Staffing Consideration $13,728Financial Indicators Improvement (Collections) $84,059Supply and Storage Expense $4,048Chart Audit $228Total Estimated Annual Opportunity Cost
$183,945
Increased Revenue Through Improved Coding In 2004, CMS reviewed about 160,000
claims from 2003 and uncovered $1 billion in underpayment, mostly by Part B carriers. According to the agency, 83.1 percent of all underpayment dollars were for E&M codes, and downcoding by one level was common. Nearly one-third of underpayment dollars resulted from these codes: 99241, 99212, 99211, and 99201.
A study of fourteen small practices in the September/October 2005 edition of Health Affairs found that each physician could raise his/her revenue by as much $42,000 per year with increased coding levels resulting from implementation of EHR.
EHR and Medical Liability Insurance Discounts Malpractice insurance carriers are increasingly
offering 2½ – 5% discounts to doctors for using an EHR in their practice.
In 2007, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) published an article advocating for lower malpractice insurance premiums for physicians who implement certified electronic health record (EHR) systems. CCHIT asserted that physicians using certified EHR systems enhance the quality and safety of their care through:
Improved aggregation, analysis and communication of patient information;
Diagnostic and therapeutic decision support Prevention of adverse events (such as
safeguards against prescribing drugs which interact with the patient's current medications)
Clinical alerts and reminders; and Enhancing research on clinical quality
improvement.
E-Prescribe Incentives
This incentive is separate from and is in addition to the quality reporting incentive program authorized by Division B of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 – Medicare Improvements and Extension Act of 2006 (MIE-TRHCA) and known as the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI).
The government said Medicare is expected to save up to $156M over the five-year course of the program in avoided adverse drug events. The HHS pointed out estimates that as many 530,000 adverse drug events are reported every year by Medicare beneficiaries while the Institute of Medicine said that more than 1.5M Americans are injured each year by drug errors.
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Beyond
Incentive 2% 2% 1% 1% 0.5% None
Penalty None None None 1% 1.5% 2%
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) PQRI is a CMS sponsored program. Participating physicians in 2010 will be awarded
2% of their total Medicare Indemnity billings for the reporting period –an increase from 1.5% in 2008.
2010 179 Quality Measures 13 Measure Groups (Diabetes, Chronic Kidney
Disease, Preventive Care, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG), Back Pain, Perioperative Care, Hepatitis C, Heart Failure (HF), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Ischemic Vascular Disease (IVD), HIV/AIDS, Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP))
2% Reimbursement -- Individual physicians and other eligible professionals who satisfactorily reported PQRI quality measures data and thus qualified for an incentive payment for the 2008 PQRI received incentives amounts from more than $1,000 to $98,000 in incentives.
Tax Incentives The HIRE ACT of 2010 (Hiring
Incentives to Restore Employment) amended Section 179 of the Tax Code to increase the small business expense for qualified property to $250,000 through December 31, 2009. Thus, a medical practice can expense the full cost (up to $250,000) of its equipment/medical software purchase that purchased by 12/31/2010.
Thus, your practice can expense the full amount of an EHR software purchase including software and hardware – and reduce your practice’s taxable income.
Opportunities for New Revenue Streams
In addition, to the cost savings and opportunity for government incentive money, there are some new opportunities for a physician to generate revenue using EHR:
Clinical Trials In-House Pharmacies
Opportunity For New Revenue With Clinical Trials
In-House Pharmacies The average physician spends up to 60 minutes
a day dealing with pharmaceutical issues for no revenue.
Phoning or faxing prescriptions to the pharmacist, call-backs for non-formulary drugs, inquiries because of illegible handwriting and mandated prior authorization for refills are great time wasters.
While electronic prescribing may ease legibility and calls to the pharmacy regarding non-formulary prescriptions, the physician does all the work and receives none of the revenue — while often paying for the e-prescribing system. For a practice utilizing an on-site dispensing system and promoting it to its patients, the profit can be substantial.
We have a case study of a single physician in Georgia whose net revenue from on-site pharmaceutical dispensing ranged from $60,000 to $72,000 per year of additional revenue.
Questions?
Contact: Rob [email protected]