Randy - lets keep in touch, I would like to have a little thread or group about tips and tricks with Prime.

Tom - you are right, this quality BS is totally despondent making. But it appears to be here to stay, Trump or no Trump. So I have totally girded my loins and sucked up a pile of crap. Finding ways to satisfy the bean counters without making myself crazy with box checking and text insertion is one of my side avocations! For example, our practices are in the RI Care Transformation Collaborative. That means after applying and being accepted, for a small PMPM payment ( about $5.00 PMPM for every attributed member in a multipayer colllaborative) we have to report on 6 NQF criteria quarterly, send in quarterly reports on NCM usage and become a level 3 NCQA PCMH. Money wise it's not worth it, but I want to see what the bean counters are up to, and then beat them at their own game, and then expose it. We wrote this article about it: http://www.annfammed.org/content/13/3/269
At the same time, I continue to use a real quality practice tool, HowsYourHealth.com which actually is an amazing quality resource and does really help improve my practice.
But I do think using Prime will decrease the box checking that I have to do and in the first iteration I want to see it pick up all the data that I have to report quarterly (looks like it might do that) so I can stop manually tagging the superbills and then using AC search to pick them up.
And it seems like an easy way to to meet many of the MIPS criteria .
Lynn


Lynn