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Save the Date for Fall Meeting!
Reminder: June 30 e-Rx Deadline Approaching
AAOS Requests Assistance from Midwest AAOE with QRUR
Midwest AAOE Has Gone Social
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Midwest AAOE
Fall Meeting

October 5-6, 2012

Doubletree by Hilton
Overland Park, KS

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Issue: VI
June 2012
Dear Midwest AAOE Members,

The staff of Midwest AAOE hopes you will find this e-newsletter and subsequent editions beneficial. The Midwest AAOE strives to inform members of relevant information useful to your everyday practices. Please email us with additions you would like to see in the coming e-newsletters at [email protected]

The Midwest AAOE Staff
 
 Save the Date for Fall Meeting!

In these ever-changing times in health care, can you afford to miss any information?  Your Midwest AAOE education committee is hard at work finalizing a great program for Fall 2012.  We will meet in Kansas at the Double Tree in Overland Park on October 5th and 6th

 

 

We anticipate releasing the program and registration information over the coming weeks. Please note we are planning expanded educational tracks for administrators and support staff. We hope you will encourage more of your staff to attend the meeting and become Associate Members of the Midwest AAOE.  

 

The hotel is ready to accept your housing requests using the information below. Please make sure you tell them you are participating in the Midwest AAOE Conference to secure the room rate of $84. Watch for more details in late summer, please pencil us in on your calendar, and plan to join us for an informative meeting! 

 

DoubleTree by Hilton Kansas City-Overland Park

10100 College Blvd.

Overland Park, KS 66210

 Phone: 913-323-1905

 Fax:  913-451-6463

 

http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/MCIMSDT-DoubleTree-by-Hilton-Hotel-Kansas-City-Overland-Park-Kansas/index.do   

 

We hope to see you in October in Overland Park.


Chuck Burris, Kevin Laney, and Mike Stephenson

Fall 2012 Education Committee

Reminder: June 30 e-Rx Deadline Approaching  

The American Medical Association has issued a reminder to physicians that June 30, 2012, is the deadline to report on at least 10 electronic scripts to avoid the 2013 Medicare e-prescribing (e-Rx) program penalty. Physicians unable to meet the requirements of the program should apply for a hardship exemption applicable to their particular case before the June 30, 2012, deadline.

Read more...

 

Also attached below is an FAQ from Medicare. The FAQ provides verification that over the counter medications and DME are eligible prescriptions under the e-prescribing program. Review question #10636 and question #10632. 

 

Learn more about e-prescribing (PDF)...  

AAOS Requests Assistance from Midwest AAOE with QRUR

The following communication was distributed to AAOS Fellows in Medicare Jurisdiction 5 (KS, MO, IA, NB). The Midwest AAOE encourages our members in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska to participate in this important initiative.

 

AAOS Communication:

 

In May, you should have received from your local Medicare Administrative Contractor a copy of your individual Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR).

 

Starting in 2015, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Business Woman with GroupServices (CMS) to develop a "value-based modifier" that adjusts Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payments based on a medical professional's performance on both quality and resource use also known as a Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR). CMS initiated a four-state pilot program in your Medicare jurisdiction (Medicare J5) to share QRUR reports with physicians and solicit feedback on the report.   Because the measures and methods used in the four-state initiative may become the basis for a national value-based payment modifier, it is essential that you provide thorough input to Medicare on your individual report, including what you believe is accurate or inaccurate, what is missing, and what, should be revised.

 

The QRUR will be tailored to specialties so your feedback is central to shaping how the QRUR, and therefore the value-based modifier, will affect your fellow orthopaedic surgeons throughout the country.  

 

In order to access your report, please go to wpsmedicare.com/j5macpartb/fees/incentive-programs/qrur-incentive.shtml. You will need to enter your NPI, PTAN, and the last 5 digits of your tax ID. Once you have downloaded your individual report, you can input comments. The reports will be available only until July 6th.

Physicians with questions about specific data within their individual report should contact Lynn Reinholtz, Manager of Technical Support for WPS Medicare at
[email protected] or 608-3010-2778.

 

AAOS is developing its advocacy agenda for this issue. To help us with this, we would appreciate you sending a copy of your QRUR Report, as well as any comments given to CMS, to Richard Martin at [email protected] or fax to (202) 546-5051.

 

Please contribute to this important initiative today.

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