Quality Payment Program

Check if you’re included in MIPS. Now you can check if a clinician who bills to Medicare will need to submit data to MIPS.

The Quality Payment Program improves Medicare by helping you focus on care quality. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which threatened clinicians participating in Medicare with potential payment cliffs for 13 years. If you participate in Medicare Part B, you serve more than 55 million of the country’s most vulnerable Americans, and the Quality Payment Program will provide new tools and resources to help you give your patients the best possible care. You can choose how you want to participate based on your practice size, specialty, location, or patient population.

The Quality Payment Program has two tracks you can choose:

 
If you decide to participate in an Advanced APM, through Medicare Part B you may earn an incentive payment for participating in an innovative payment model.

If you decide to participate in MIPS, you will earn a performance-based payment adjustment.

Information provided by CMS. For more information, please visit //qpp.cms.gov/.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Download the New Financial Update

A new financial update is available:

Release Name: OFU36.05
Release Date: May 03, 2017
Update Utility: ADL Updater
Webinar Date: N/A

Technical Notes:
ADL Updates must be applied sequentially according to release date, in the order specified in the ADL Updates Installation Guide. A webinar containing instructions for applying ADL software updates is available.

Please refer to the Release Notes for more guidance.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Baseline Vital Signs have been added to the ADL EMR

Vital signs (often shortened to just VS) are a group of the 4-6 most important signs that indicate the status of the body’s vital (life-sustaining) functions. These measurements are taken to help assess the general physical health of a person, give clues to possible diseases, and show progress toward recovery. The normal ranges for a person’s vital signs vary with age, weight, gender, and overall health.

The ADL EMR calculates the Base Vital Signs which gives an average of recent measurements taken when the patient is considered to be usual condition. These values are compared to the new measurements to determine if there has been a significant deviation in the reading compare to the Baseline values.

Significant deviations cause alerts to be triggered to bring the condition to the nurse’s attention. The Baseline Values are used extensively with the Interact Methodologies.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

CMS has released a Revision to their SNF Billing Reference Booklet.

A revised SNF Billing Reference Booklet is available. Learn about:

• Medicare-covered Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) stays
• SNF payment and billing requirements

 
ADL recommends that, beginning with the next update, which is expected to be released within the next couple of weeks, the server running ADLUpdater should run the .Net 4.5 Framework or later. If an earlier Framework is used, some enhanced functionalities contained in the updates may not be available.

 
The following link explains how to check which version of .Net is installed: //msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh925568.aspx
To download the 4.5 installation software, visit //www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

 
Note: The .Net 4.5 Framework is not supported by the Windows 2003 Server. If the client’s ADL environment is hosted on a Windows 2003 Server, new functionality included in the next and future releases will not be available.

Additionally, the new web server uses port 5000 by default. This port must be accessible to computers on the private network running ADL clinical and/or financial applications. If using a firewall, this port must be unblocked.

If the client wishes to use a port other than 5000, ADL will configure the server to use the required port.

Please contact ADL with any questions you may have via e-mail (hotline@adldata.com) or phone (914)-591-1800.