HIPAA, MACRA, and Your Practice: Steps to Compliance
NueMD, in partnership with Total HIPAA, is presenting the second of three webinars on health care compliance for medical practices and billing companies. Join Jason Karn, Chief Compliance Officer at Total HIPAA, as he discusses what you need to become HIPAA compliant and offers tools to help you get there.
Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 2:00 pm EDT | 11:00 am PDT
Duration: 1 hour, including Q+A
The free live webinar, HIPAA, MACRA, and Your Practice, includes:
- A recap from last week’s webinar on MACRA and how HIPAA intersects;
- The necessary steps to achieve HIPAA compliance;
- Tips for conducting a Risk Assessment and how to translate the information into Policies and Procedures; and
- HIPAA training requirements for your staff.
Another plus, the content of this webinar has been approved by the Professional Association of Healthcare Office Management (PAHCOM) as eligible for 1 CEU credit.
Presenter
Jason Karn – Chief Compliance Officer – Total HIPAA
Co-author of Total HIPAA’s Training and Compliance Solutions, frequent national speaker on HIPAA, and a HIPAA social media contributor, Jason is well versed in the intricacies of implementation and updates as they happen. As Chief Compliance Officer for Total HIPAA, he takes a hands-on approach to assisting clients with the details of developing a well-documented HIPAA compliance plan.
MACRA and Your Practice
In case you missed last week’s webinar featuring NueMD, Smartlink Mobile, and Total HIPAA, click here to watch it.
In the March 16, 2017 webinar, “MACRA and Your Practice”, the presenters examined MACRA legislation and its influence on the workflow in your organization. Attendees gained insight into the steps to succeed under MACRA. The presenters gave tools for the new reporting requirements and how the requirements will affect HIPAA compliance.
Summary “MACRA and HIPAA”
The Medicare Access & Chip Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) ended the former payment program for Medicare and begins a push toward the Quality Payment Program. This Program was created to improve Medicare by helping organizations focus on care quality and making patients healthier. In order to entice physicians to participate in this program1, the Quality Payment Program has two tracks:
- Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs), or
- Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)1
The webinar focused on MIPS since this is most applicable to the small- and medium-sized practices we serve. If you participate in MIPS, you are going to need to submit data collected from the following activities:
- Quality- 60% of your score;
- Improvement Activities- 15% of your score;
- Advancing Care Information- 25% of your score; and
- Cost- No data submission required. Calculated from claims.
For the purposes of HIPAA, the webinar focused on Advancing Care Information (ACI). HIPAA is a key component of the ACI program. ACI makes up 25% of your total score for MIPS, and HIPAA compliance is required in order to qualify for a score. So, if you don’t have HIPAA in place, you will not achieve the ACI minimum score, and you will lose a full quarter of your MIPS score before you even get started.
