Home Forums Discussions Meaningful Use Incorrect demoninator for Core 13

During the last 90 days I had 141 Medicare visits. The MU wizard reports the denominator as 531 visits, which is causing me to fail this core. I upgraded to version 6.0.10 a couple of months ago. Do any of you know why the denominator is so high and what I can do to correct it?

The denominator is not just Medicare patients.

For reporting to Medicare, the denominator is "all unique patients" seen within the reporting period.

DCubed is 100% correct. therefore in order to meet all goals, the measures must be tracked for all patients.

Hmmm....many of my visits are for INS purposes - they have their own forms and reporting requirements. It never occurred to me that I needed to provide these patients with visit summaries because I always give them their own copy of the INS paperwork.

yes, any note that is signed into the record counts as a visit for MU criteria.
You don't have to print these out. You can simply hit, "Print preview" instead of "print to default printer" for the visit summary. They after clicking "Print Preview" you close out the following 3 windows that pop up. This "tricks" AC in thinking you printed the visit to paper, when in actuality you printed to the computer screen. I am not advocating that you be dishonest in reporting MU requirements, I'm just pointing out a work around printing 2-3 sheets of paper every time you see a patient.