Project ECHO® Eating Disorders is an ongoing, twice-monthly web-based learning series providing case-based learning and brief lectures to build providers’ capacity to better serve people with eating disorders and their families in their home communities. The 90-minute sessions (first and third Tuesdays from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.) promote evidence-based strategies and best practice guidelines for working with patients at all levels of care and support ongoing mentorship and interdisciplinary relationship building and care coordination. Sessions are cost-free, as are CME hours and social work CEUs for participants.
For additional information, please go to: www.nyeatingdisorders.org/echo.html
To register for this series, please go to: http://bit.ly/ECHOEDOREG
There is also a parallel ECHO® series for all disciplines of K-12 school staff, focused on prevention, identification and support for children and adolescents with eating disorders and their families. More information on that series: http://www.nyeatingdisorders.org/sb-echo.html
For ECHO-related questions, please contact: Jim_Witmer@URMC.Rochester.edu
On Friday, October 4, the NYS Comprehensive Care Centers for Eating Disorders, sponsored by the NYS Department of Health, will present a first-of-its-kind statewide conference featuring experts from New York’s three centers of excellence in eating disorder care and research. Presenters will represent Albany Medical College, the University of Rochester Medical Center, Syracuse University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, among others.
This day-long conference, to be held in Syracuse, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team to educate providers from the many disciplines who work with these patients and their families, including primary and family care physicians, psychiatry and behavioral health clinicians, dietitians, care managers, nurses, creative arts therapists, life coaches, etc. All interested practitioners are welcome to attend.
The conference website, www.nyeatingdisorders.org/NYSCCCED-2019-Conference.html provides all of the details of the conference, including information about the program, the presenters, the location, and more.
Registration for the conference can be filled out at: urson.us/EDOConf2019
The registration fee is just $20; light breakfast and lunch will be provided and CME and social work CEUs will be available at no extra cost.
Please contact EDOConference@URMC.Rochester.edu with any other questions.
The Workers Compensation Board is offering new resources to assist in the transition to Form CMS-1500, which will streamline medical billing and reduce the paperwork requirements currently in the workers compensation system.
To help you prepare, the Board has developed a training video to show health care providers, and all others who will be using Form CMS-1500, how to use the form and the required narrative reports to bill for their services to workers compensation patients.
The Board will also hold two follow-up Q&A webinars so that you can get answers to any questions you may have after viewing the training video and reading the CMS-1500 FAQ on the Board s website.
With that in mind, we encourage you to view the training video before attending one of the webinars. As you view the training video, take note of questions that come up so that you ll be prepared for the Q&A webinar. This will enable you to take full advantage of both resources.
To view the training video, follow this link: CMS-1500 Training Video
The webinars will be held on:
September 17, 2019 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Register Here September 18, 2019 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Register Here
In the meantime, please see CMS-1500 Initiative and the CMS-1500 FAQ for information.
Please direct questions to CMS1500@wcb.ny.gov
TRNDS is a one-day symposium on emerging novel therapeutic technologies that are creating new and rapidly expanding treatment options for patients with rare neurological disorders. TRNDS is hosted and organized by the University of Rochester, a national leader in rare disease research and therapeutic development.
September 13, 2019
7:30 am – 4:00 pm
University of Rochester Saunders Research Building 265 Crittenden Boulevard Rochester, NY 14620
To register, click here.
Updated FAQs Regarding Immunization Requirements for School Attendance Released July 19, 2019
Effective June 13, 2019, Chapter 35 of the Public Health Law of 2019 repealed non-medical exemptions from vaccination for children
attending school.
NYSDOH, OCFS, and NYSED have released an updated document in
follow-up to FAQs issued on June 18, 2019.
It is titled: VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL STUDENTS
You can view the updated FAQs and additional resources on the
NYSCSH website here or the NYSED website here.
presented by Elizabeth Wende Breast Care Saturday, September 14, 2019 7:30am-12:00pm | Woodcliff Hotel, Fairport, NY 14450
PRESENTATIONS:
REGISTRATION: www.surveymonkey.com/r/EWBC-CME19 or call 585 758-7081. Seating for the presentation is limited. Please respond before September 1. Complimentary hot breakfast.
Hotel accommodations: Woodcliff Hotel and Spa | Fairport, NY 14450
Hotel rooms are available at a rate of $139 per night. Please mention Elizabeth Wende Breast Care when making your reservations. To guarantee this rate, rooms must be reserved by 09/01/2019.
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Medical Society of New York (MSSNY) through the joint providership of the Rochester Academy of Medicine and Elizabeth Wende Breast Care. The Rochester Academy of Medicine is accredited by the Medical Society of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Statement: The Rochester Academy of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
In an effort to share model details and to include Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation leadership, the upcoming webinar on the Primary Care First Seriously Ill Population (SIP) payment option will now be held at the following date and time:
Wednesday, July 24th at 12:00 PM EDT
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your continued interest in Primary Care First. Webinar slides will be available for download on the Primary Care First webpage shortly after the event.
Please forward the registration link below to colleagues who may be interested in learning more about the Seriously Ill Population payment model option of Primary Care First.
Register to attend here:
https://cmslearningevents.cosocloud.com/primarycarefirstsip/event/registration.html
If you registered for the event on July 10th, then you do not need to re-register for the event as the link you received is still valid.
For additional information about Primary Care First, please visit the model webpage at https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/primary-care-first-model-options/.
Questions or Feedback?
If you have questions or feedback, please email PrimaryCareApply@telligen.com.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has sent this Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Update. To contact Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) go to our contact us page.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Guidehouse to conduct data validation and audits of a select number of Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians. Data validation and audits are processes that will help ensure MIPS is operating with accurate and useful data. MIPS eligible clinicians, groups and virtual groups are required by regulation to comply with data sharing requests, providing all data as requested by CMS.
If you are selected for data validation and/or audit, you will receive a request for information from Guidehouse. It will be sent via email or by certified mail. Please be on the lookout for this notification. You will have 45 calendar days from the date of the notice to provide the requested information.
Please note, if you do not provide the requested information CMS may take further action, to include the possibility that you will be selected for future audits. To help avoid this, we are in the process of developing resources to support clinicians selected to participate.
We currently have the following data validation and audit resources available on the Quality Payment Program Resource Library:
Be sure to subscribe to the QPP listserv by entering your email at the bottom of the Quality Payment Program website so that you receive notifications about the most up to date MIPS Data Validation and Audit information available.
How do I get Help or More Information?
The Quality Payment Program can be reached at QPP@cms.hhs.gov or 1-866-288-8292 (TTY 1-877-715- 6222), Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM-8:00 PM Eastern Time.
As a reminder, QPP Submissions will no longer support QPP XML format starting January 2, 2020. The QPP Submissions API will only accept requests and return responses in QPP JSON format.
This means that files must be uploaded to the QPP website in either QPP JSON or QRDA III XML. This change improves the Submissions API performance and eliminates security vulnerabilities related to XML.
Who is impacted
The deprecation of QPP XML means that if you’ve ever configured your software to send requests to the QPP Submissions API or provided a file for your client to upload to the QPP website in QPP XML format, you will need to update your software to send those requests in QPP JSON format.
Please review the timeline below for key dates on QPP XML deprecation.
Organizations that already submit in QPP JSON are not impacted.
This does not apply to QRDA III XML. The QRDA III XML converter tool will remain available to convert QRDA III XML to QPP JSON.
Key dates for QPP XML deprecation
o Developer Preview environment: The QPP Submissions API in this environment will only accept requests in QPP JSON format.
o Production environment: The QPP Submissions API in this environment will still accept requests in QPP JSON and QPP XML format.
o Interactive documentation (https://preview.qpp.cms.gov/api/submissions/public/docs/): this website will only document the API in QPP JSON/
o Static documentation (https://cmsgov.github.io/qpp-submissions-docs/): this website will only document the API in QPP JSON.
o Production environment: The QPP Submissions API in this environment will only accept requests in QPP JSON format.
o Interactive documentation (https://preview.qpp.cms.gov/api/submissions/public/docs/): this website will only document the API in QPP JSON.
We’ll be posting reminders when each of these key dates through the Google Group for QPP APIs.
We recommend migrating as soon as possible to ensure you don’t experience any disruption.
Where to go for support in migrating to QPP JSON
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