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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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