The release of our QuicDoc® Enterprise Practice Management Software last month has caused a lot of interest among our Enterprise customers. Since QuicDoc PM is fully integrated with our QuicDoc Enterprise EMR, we now have a front to back office solution to seamlessly manage your accounts receivables and your clinical documentation needs.
Contact us today for a personal demonstration of QuicDoc PM. Click here for more information or call 800-850-8510.
e-Prescribing and Identity Verification
EPCS Token Advice – If you are enrolled as a prescriber in Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) through DrFirst and need to register a new EPCS token, you will be required to provide an OTP Pin number from an existing token in order to do so. If you have only one token and it becomes lost or broken so that you can’t provide the pin number, you will need to repeat the entire EPCS Identity Proofing enrollment process all over again.
To avoid this we recommend registering at least two (2) EPCS tokens – a hard token and a soft token. The hard token is given to you when you initially sign up. The soft token is an application for Android, iPhone, or Tablet devices that can be downloaded at the App Store on your device. It is available from Symantec, and is called VIP Access. The symbol is on the right. A desktop version of the software is also available and can be downloaded here.
Once downloaded, go into your EPCS Gold Prescriber Dashboard in DrFirst to register the token. You can have up to five (5) tokens registered on your account.
For assistance and additional information please contact our Support Department.
For QuicDoc Pro call 888-308-9683. For QuicDoc Enterprise call 888-206-1270
QuicDoc Office in the Cloud
For a limited time, we are offering a year of free maintenance with new Cloud subscriptions. If you are interested in using our software in the Cloud, now is a great time to sign up and take advantage of our promotion.
For information on QuicDoc and/or Office Therapy® in the Cloud contact our Sales Department at 800-850-8510.
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Wiley Treatment Planning Content is available now in QuicDoc® Professional Version 11!!
Have you updated your ICD-10 Codes in Office Therapy yet? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set the ICD-10 compliance date for October 1, 2015 – less than six months away.
We have had a lot of calls lately asking us about PQRS. According to CMS.gov Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a reporting program that uses a combination of incentive payments and negative payment adjustments to promote the reporting of quality of treatment information by eligible professionals (EPs) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).The program provides an incentive payment to practices with EPs (identified on claims by their individual National Provider Identifier [NPI] and Tax Identification Number [TIN]).Several PQRS program changes were included in health care reform legislation enacted in 2010. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires the implementation of timely feedback and the establishment of an informal appeals process by 2011.
and 2 percent thereafter. In the 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule, CMS finalized its proposal to base 2016 PQRS penalties off of 2014 reporting. Therefore, physicians who did not participate in PQRS in 2014 will receive a 2 percent penalty in 2016. 2014 was the last year a physician could receive an additional incentive for participating in the PQRS Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program or receive an incentive for participating in PQRS. In the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule, CMS finalized its proposal to base 2017 PQRS penalties off of 2015 reporting.
Happy New Year! We have so much to be thankful for going into 2015, and just want to extend a big thank you to you, our customers, for being able to serve you for the last twenty-one years.
Recognizing the importance of total medication management, DocuTrac has partnered with DrFirst in order to help therapists provide optimal patient care with Total Medication Adherence. This includes medication history and adherence monitoring and support, as well as electronic prior authorizations and prescribing of controlled substances for those providers who can prescribe.
The majority of QuicDoc® Pro and Office Therapy® users are not the target of hackers today. The biggest threat our users face is the loss or theft of servers, desktop and laptop computers. These computers, even when secured with Windows logon passwords, are not secure enough.Logon passwords can easily be hacked leaving the data vulnerable to thieves. Even if they don’t take the time to break the password, the culprit can just remove the hard drives and connect them to other devices to access the data. The only way to adequately protect your practice, your clients, and yourself is to encrypt all the drives containing “Protected Health Information.”QuicDoc Pro and Enterprise, as well as Office Therapy software users should protect their data by encrypting the hard drives where the databases reside. BitLocker Drive Encryption built into Microsoft computers for Windows 7 and higher, will encrypt hard drive(s) to protect operating systems from offline attacks. If you have not done so and need to encrypt your hard drive, be sure to first back up your data and store it on an external device.You can rest assured that all data transmitted for E-Prescribing and for E-filing is automatically encrypted following the latest HIPAA requirements. And for Cloud users the data is automatically protected using bank level security with high level encryption methods.
Simply having a procedure in place to check on the billing status of a client before making him/her inactive will resolve any problems. Perhaps one individual can be assigned to this task. The procedure to make clients inactive should depend on workflow and communication between the front and back office staff.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) content is available as an add-on in both our QuicDoc Professional and Enterprise Edition software. The flexibility of embedding EMDR documentation content in QuicDoc enables providers to capture and report information on EMDR treatment, as well as track patient progress. EMDR certified therapists who are current customers of QuicDoc can purchase EMDR documentation content for a nominal fee. Contact our Sales Department at 800-850-8510 for information.
