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Meaningful Use mid-level provider encounters

MU, CQR, PQRS, etc.

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emaher

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We were told that physicians can (at their discretion) include mid-level provider encounters in their Meaningful Use statistics.

I'm guessing CQR doesn't support this. Ideally, we'd want to lump the physicians and mid-levels into one bucket. That way no double counting occurs.

Is there a way to get CQR to do this? Anyone reported on mid-level encounters?

Posted : March 2, 2016 1:14 pm

hbias

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we treat every office visit encounter as if it will count on the physicians tally. My understanding is if the physician counter signs the visit (all of ours do) then it will count on theirs. I do calculate all the same things for midlevels and physicians so the physicians know if their midlevel needs some nudging to collect the data needed. I looked into this when we first went on CQR but have not verified this is still the case recently.

Hilary

Posted : March 3, 2016 4:12 am

tcross

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Based on the results I got from 2015 data, I think you are right Hilary. I also reviewed some fo the included pateints for the provider and found that their office visits were scheduled with the ARNP but th enote was co-signed by the physician. I was also told by GE when I questioned it that if the physician signed the note and it had the appropriate document choice and met the other criteria for the measure it would count. I would like to get any further info on this though. If anyone has more updated info.

Posted : March 3, 2016 6:38 am

mcwilson

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The "MU and Quality Program Preparation Series - MU and PQRS: Choosing a service pack and data submission requirements document states document is very helpful in relation to these questions.

For instance Page 15 states:

Functional measures use “Seen by” and “Office Visit” definition

• Order codes in ‘GE Seen By’ and ‘GE Office Visit’ value sets shown in Data Mapping – ONLY the order’s Authorizing provider is associated as the EP

• Document types in ‘Patient Encounter (MU)’ global document view – carried over from MU Stage 1 – ANY signer of the document is associated with patient encounter

• Changes to document view do not exclude encounters already sent to CQR

On this same document Page 17 states:

Signing workflows impacted by use of document types

Workflows that may cause over counting
• Supervising Physician reviews and co-signs documents for mid-level providers

• Acknowledgement signature of consulting physician’s office visit

Page 9 gives a method to avoid over counting by waiting 1 day before co-signing the document:

All FM Documents co-signed after the nightly JSON extract will not be associated with the EP unless they are appended ( workflow guidance available)
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Posted : March 3, 2016 10:32 am

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