NPAIHB REC

NPAIHB Regional Extension Center UpdateKatie Johnson, Pharm D

EHR Integrated Care Coordinator, REC ManagerJune 2012

Services

• Information resource– Office Hours– Website– Tip sheets– Interface with other

organizations• Technical resource

– Consultants • Lab, Pharmacy, IT

– EHR Troubleshooting• Worfkflow Anaylsis

• Planning Resource– Guidance on navigating

MU registration/attestation

– Individual planning for participation in Incentive Programs

• MU Performance Measure Resource– Guidance on how to

actually meet MU!– Assist where possible

(Ex: Security Risk Analysis)

More Services

• REC is here to meet your needs• It is still a new and developing

program• If you identify a need for meeting

MU…– Just ask and we’ll see what we can do!

Grant Structure

• Grant Credits• Milestone 1• Milestone 2• Milestone 3• Earn as you go• 127 Providers from 27 sites

– 3 more sites pending

MU (Briefly)

• Medicaid– Must meet a 30% patient volume

requirement• Tribal sites can use “needy patients”,

Federal sites can not– More potential money - $63,750 per

provider over the life of the program– May start as late as 2016– First year is simply Adopt, Implement, or

Upgrade (this is the easy part!)– Must qualify each year

MU (Briefly)

• Medicare – No patient volume requirement, but you must

be billing on the Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule• If the provider is billing less that $25,000/yr

Medicare Part B, then their incentive payment will be less

– Less potential money – max $44,000 per provider over the life of the program

– Last year to start = 2014 (2012 for max payments)

– First year is actually meeting MU for 90 days!– Penalty phase – starting in 2015

MU (Briefly)

• When would you choose Medicare Program?– Provider does not meet 30% patient

volume requirement for Medicaid– Provider is a podiatrist, optomitrist, or

chiropractor• Switching Programs

– Can do this one time• Ex – qualify first year for Medicaid, but can’t

qualify the next year….ok to switch to Medicare

$ Money $

• ~ $800,000 paid to sites in Portland Area– 41 providers from 10 sites– Several more providers from 5 more

sites pending payments• Largely from Medicaid program • Potential for many more providers to

get payments – still plenty of time to start!

Moving forward

• If you haven’t started yet – – Still plenty of time– Focus on qualifying for Medicaid– Registration– This is real money…– Let’s get that first yearMedicaid payment!

Moving Forward

• Timeline for those that have already participated

Timeline

• First Year Medicaid 2011– Meet MU for 90 days in 2012

• Last day to start Oct 3, 2012

• First Year Medicaid 2012– Meet MU for 90 days in 2013

• Last day to start Oct 3, 2013

Timeline

• First Year Medicare 2011– You already met MU for 90 days in 2011– You are in a 365 day reporting period for

2012

• First Year Medicare 2012– You must meet MU for 90 days in 2012

• Start by Oct 3, 2012

REC Timeline

• M3 Acceleration from ONC– Reasons– What it means – How it will help

Barriers

• E-prescribing– Required to meet MU– Inhouse RPMS Pharmacy – Tribally owned COTS Pharmacy– No Pharmacy

• 14 sites signed up with the REC that will need e-Prescribing for MU

RPMS E-Prescribing

• Released March 2012– Controlled Release– Many requirements to complete before

going live• Drug File Optimization• 3 signed Agreements

– BAA, DEA, EUA

E-Prescribing

• 7 sites with drug files ready to go• 2 sites scheduled• 1 ready to be scheduled• Washington State Board of Pharmacy

E-Prescribing

• Interface with COTS Pharmacy– Requirements are written from RPMS

side– May take to your COTS vendor and ask if

they will program a way to interface with RPMS

– Will still want Drug File optimized, as interface would use the same functionality as e-Prescribing

MU Stage 2

• Final Rule due out this summer– Parts may go into effect immediately

• Patient Volume calculations?– Others would take effect in 2014 most

likely

Stage 2 Comments

• Public Comments were written and submitted on behalf of NPAIHB– Also commenting:

• USET• NIHB• CRIHB• IHS

Stage 2 Highlights

Patient Volume Calculations• Expanded definition of Medicaid

patient encounter– Hopefully helps Service Units use the

Group Volume calculation• Flexible look-back period

– Previous 12 months vs prior calendar year

Stage 2 Highlights

• Performance Measures– Increasing target percentages– Moving menu set to core set– “Test” transmissions changed to

“successful and ongoing”

Stage 2 Highlights

• Measures relying on patient action– Provide online access to health

information for more than 50% of patients with more than 10% actually accessing

– View/download/transmit health information

– More than 10% of patients send secure messages to their providers

Stage 2 Comments

• General – provider based program now relying on patient action for incentives and to avoid payment penalties?

• Internet Access Issue– Broadband Exclusion

• Poorly outlined, difficult to interpret

Stage 2 Comments

• Many other, much more detailed comments

• Will analyze further when Final Rule comes out

Questions?

Contact Information

• NPAIHB Regional Extension Center Contact– Katie Johnson , Pharm D– 503-416-3272 kjohnson@npaihb.org

• rec@npaihb.org• http://www.npaihb.

org/programs/ehr/

• IHS Meaningful Use Contacts– Angela Boechler, BBA Meaningful Use

Consultant 503-414-5579

Angela.Boechler@ihs.gov

– Capt. Leslie Dye Meaningful Use

Coordinator 503-414-5599 Leslie.Dye@ihs.gov