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Medicare Diabetes Care (including Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program)

Medicare Diabetes Care (including Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program)

Apr 17, 2018 | Community Health Centers, FQHC, General, Quality Measures, Reimbursement, RHC, Tips/Techniques

As part of the Medicare preventive service programs, three distinct services have been developed to assist providers and community wellness programs to provide care to diabetic patients. Diabetes affects more than 25 percent of Americans aged 65 or older, and its...
Medicare Patients Need Community Health Centers

Medicare Patients Need Community Health Centers

Nov 24, 2017 | Community Health Centers, FQHC, Performing the AWV/IPPE, Reimbursement, Uncategorized

Less than 10% of the patient population in Community Health Centers are Medicare patients.   Even in states with significant senior populations such as Florida, Arizona and Texas, as few as 1 or 2 percent of Community Health Center patients have Medicare. On the...
Beware of the Audit Pitfalls Associated With Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit

Beware of the Audit Pitfalls Associated With Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit

Oct 26, 2017 | Performing the AWV/IPPE, Quality Measures

With the new challenges of MACRA/MIPS, providers are looking closer at Medicare’s Wellness Programs to help meet their quality measures.  Naturally, as a software company that supports an electronic template for the AWV, I am glad to see this shift.  That being said,...
How We Help Practices Wade Through MACRA-MIPS/APMS

How We Help Practices Wade Through MACRA-MIPS/APMS

Oct 5, 2017 | Performing the AWV/IPPE, Quality Measures, Reimbursement, Tips/Techniques, Uncategorized

In 2010, before the Affordable Care Act went live and before Medicare began funding it’s Annual Wellness Visit, Innovative Health Media began modifying it’s Personal Health Record to act as a template for that visit. From the beginning it was apparent that most...
Let’s Bring Prevention and Wellness To Rural Areas

Let’s Bring Prevention and Wellness To Rural Areas

Sep 25, 2017 | Community Health Centers, RHC

By: Nancy Shawver,  Guest Blogger  As a rural healthcare provider, you’ve probably encountered problems like these: Patients are often isolated, travelling long distances just to come to the clinic. Patients may not have the means to pay for healthcare, as rural...
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