STEP 3: Medicaid First Year Payment State Attestation Medicaid First Year Incentive Payment Webinar Series Primary Care Information Project NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Pre-attestation Checklist Have registered with CMS for Medicaid Incentive and have CMS registration ID (please refer to CMS Registration Guide on resource library) Have obtained an epaces account with MEIPASS access Calculated numerator and denominator values for a 90 day reporting period to report Medicaid patient volume eligibility Primary Care Information Project 2
Login using epaces user ID Troubleshooting: If it says not authorized, go back to epaces and make sure the user ID is associated with the NPI, and it has full access for MEIPASS (refer to our Guides for Step 2 in our resource library) http://meipass.emedny.org/ Primary Care Information Project 3
Enter your CMS registration ID. Forget your CMS registration ID? Sign back into the CMS Registration and Attestation Page to find out or look on your submission receipt. Primary Care Information Project 4
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Select the payment year for which you are applying for Primary Care Information Project 6
Select payment year 2013, and NO if you do not work at a FQHC and do not intend to use needy patient volume to qualify. Primary Care Information Project 7
You must select a 90 day period to provide patient encounter data to determine your Medicaid Patient Volume. Primary Care Information Project 8
You must select a 90 day period to provide patient encounter data to determine your Medicaid Patient Volume. For Previous Calendar Year 2013, enter a Start Date that falls within 2012. The End Date, which will be automatically generated, needs to fall within 2012 as well. For Preceding 12 Month Period, enter a Start Date within the 12 month attestation period. The End Date will automatically generate. Primary Care Information Project 9
PA s are only eligible if they work at a FQHC that is led by a PA Hospital Based providers are providers who see 90% or more of their patients in an inpatient or emergency room place of service code Primary Care Information Project 10
If you are using Individual data for patient volume eligibility select No for Include Organization Encounters. Enter the total Medicaid and total encounters for the reporting period that is representative of the encounters seen by the provider attesting. Primary Care Information Project 11
If you selected Yes to Include Organization Encounters, you are stating you will be using group aggregate patient volume. To use the group aggregate patient volume, you must include all encounters from providers within the group for the Total Medicaid Encounters and Total Encounters The group aggregate patient volume should be representative of the Organization NPI you provided above. Primary Care Information Project 12
If you are planning to use alternative patient panel volume to calculate your patient volume eligibility please select Yes. For Include encounters outside of NY select Yes if encounters outside NY are included in the patient volume data, otherwise select No. The Alternative Patient Panel Volume Calculation is difficult and only used as a last resort. If you must use this method, please contact us for further assistance. Primary Care Information Project 13
Select the EHR status that best represents what actions the provider had with his or her EHR system within the payment year that was selected. Primary Care Information Project 14
1. If the provider only has AIU activities at one EHR system, simply enter the EHR certification number. 2. If the EP has AIU activities at more than one EHR system please enter all EHR certification numbers that apply. 3. Once you have entered all the necessary information, click the save button. 4. Once you click save, a pop up will appear to confirm your Medicaid Patient volume percentage. Click OK to move onto the next page. Primary Care Information Project 15
Click the check box and register button to submit the attestation Primary Care Information Project 16
PRINT THIS PDF! PROVIDER needs to sign, date, and mail the attestation form to the state. If prompted to Leave or Stay On the page in order to print, it is okay to leave the page. Primary Care Information Project 17
Forgot to Print out PDF? Sign into MEIPASS, and click on the STATUS tab Primary Care Information Project 18
Forgot to Print out PDF? Select Payment year 1 Primary Care Information Project 19
Forgot to Print out PDF? PDF is available for reprinting Primary Care Information Project 20
Webpages and Hotlines 1. NPPES for NPI User ID & Password (800-465-3203): https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/nppes/welcome.do 2. CMS Meaningful Use Registration (888-734-6433): https://ehrincentives.cms.gov/hitech/login.action 3. emedny Enrollment (800-343-9000): https://www.emedny.org/ 4. epaces Main Login (800-343-9000): https://www.emedny.org/epaces/ 5. MEIPASS (Login, Navigation, Troubleshooting) 877-646-5410, meipasshelp@csc.com https://meipass.emedny.org/ehr/jsp/ehr/pglogin.jsp 6. NYS Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Support Team (Calculation, Registration, Eligibility) hit@health.state.ny.us 877-646-5410 Option 2 7. Medicaid Eligibility Workbook: https://www.emedny.org/meipass/ep/nys_ehr_ep_workbook.xls Primary Care Information Project 21