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Question for everyone, what are you doing if you have Medical assistants putting the medications in and transmitting them to the pharmacy per the doctors orders? The reports show that they dont count.
How are you getting around this and getting credit for this measure?
Posted : October 18, 2012 11:28 pm
We assigned all of our MA's as non license medical assistants. This is counting for us because they just have to have the word license in their title. We have attested for 30+ providers
Posted : October 22, 2012 5:32 am
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Hmm. Not a bad idea. I did do some researching and in MU stage 2 for CPOE, Medical Assistants count regardless if they are licensed or not. Why they cant just make that change for Stage 1 too.
Posted : October 22, 2012 6:42 am
At our facility we are having problems with really low percentages on our CPOE reports even though providers state that they are using this function daily. Does anyone have any suggestions about why this might be happening?
Posted : September 6, 2013 3:35 am
For the MAs in 2014, I'm pretty sure it is up to the licensure board for each individual state in determing whether MAs count or don't count for CPOE. It's not automatic either way. Just changing the Job Title may certainly work for the report, but doesn't really address the measure.
The GE CPOE reports are based upon who clicks the Sign button on Meds. If your staff are not 'licensed' appropriately and they Sign Meds on the doctor's behalf, then you may want to look at that workflow, which is pretty common in Specialty offices.
That differs from the e-prescribing measure, which is based upon the doctor's name and doesn't matter who actually clicked and signed the Rx.
For CPOE, it's all about the clicker in the sense that they have the clinical knowledge to understand all the alerts, warnings and decision-support.
Posted : October 9, 2013 6:48 am
Also remember that the first CPOE report and original law were based upon Meds for patients seen, which penalizes providers who see patients but don't enter any Meds with the visit.
Make sure you are also running the 2nd (CPOE for Medications Prescribed, Need >30%) and 3rd (CPOE Qualifier, Need <30%). Your numbers will always be better on the Prescribed report.
Posted : October 9, 2013 7:42 am
Conda said:
We assigned all of our MA's as non license medical assistants. This is counting for us because they just have to have the word license in their title. We have attested for 30+ providers
How are you doing this? The measure states it needs to be a credentialed / licensed MA, if yours are not, you're just lying to make your reports look right. Seems like this would scream "come audit me!"
Posted : October 14, 2013 12:06 am
On a Webinar today for MU2, the presenter did state the CMA's MUST be credentialed and offices should visit: http://www.aama-ntl.org to verify if their CMA's are indeed certified and to develope proper policy/procedures on who is allowed to complete CPOE in your practice.
Ashley Corbean
Guilford Medical Associates
Posted : October 23, 2013 6:21 am
guilfordmedical said:
On a Webinar today for MU2, the presenter did state the CMA's MUST be credentialed and offices should visit: http://www.aama-ntl.org to verify if their CMA's are indeed certified and to develope proper policy/procedures on who is allowed to complete CPOE in your practice.
Ashley Corbean
Guilford Medical Associates
Posted : October 23, 2013 6:26 am
