MIPS and the Elephant in the Room
The more we learn about MIPS, the more obvious it becomes: Non-compliant practices will be driven out of the industry.
MIPS will threaten to takeback 9% of reimbursements
affecting 65% of your revenue
That’s right. As MIPS matures, the takeback increases to 9% and all major payers are expected to participate.
This is why we need to discuss, “The elephant in the room”.
Inefficiency
Most therapists say that it took 3 to 5 minutes to report PQRS with web based PT EMR. Worse yet, 40% of the market failed to comply with PQRS rules.
MIPS is referred to as “Pay for Progression”. Question: Does spending an extra 3 to 5 minutes on every eval and re-eval improve patient progression?
Using Systems 4PT, our therapists documented PQRS in 10 seconds in 2016. Impressively, 99.3% of those therapists were PQRS compliant.
Being Fair . . . To Yourself
Look at yourself. “Your new normal” is to catch up on documentation during nights and weekends. It wasn’t that way with paper documentation. The problem is that your check list EMR is slower than paper. MIPS will make things even worse.
Using Systems 4PT,
you’ll document an eval in half the time vs. your outdated EMR.
Leaving more time for hands-on patient treatment (which is the only thing that yields progression). And also leaving more time for you.
Remember when Sunday was your “fun day”?
. . .Now it’s your “catch up on notes” day
You should not accept this “new normal”. This is not “realty with EMR”.
It is “reality with slow, outdated EMR”
The Elephant in the Room
Today, your largest barrier to hands-on treatment is slow EMR. Tomorrow, your greatest risk of MIPS takebacks is the same, outdated EMR, because typing doesn’t increase patient progression. You can’t work any harder; there’s no stretch left in that rubber band.
Every day it becomes clearer: Your web based PT EMR has wonderful marketing, but inadequate technology . . . and really slow EMR.
Systems 4PT will cut your eval time in half, leaving more time for hands-on treatment. Watch us document an eval in half the time on the video link, below.