KENTUCKY REGIONAL EXTENSION CENTER

Services

Kentucky REC Services

Our team assists healthcare organizations comply with changing federal and state regulations, and supports clinicians and staff with innovative ways to better serve their patients.

Quality and Value

Our experts support healthcare providers as they navigate the Quality Payment Program and Value-Based Payment.

Our services include:

  • Personalized education
  • In-depth gap analysis and action plan
  • Monitoring and analyzing of reports
  • Individualized practice support
  • Registration and attestation support

Quality and Value

Our experts support healthcare providers as they navigate the Quality Payment Program and Value-Based Payment.

Our services include:

  • Personalized education
  • In-depth gap analysis and action plan
  • Monitoring and analyzing of reports
  • Individualized practice support
  • Registration and attestation support

Medical Home

Our NCQA trained experts provide guidance tailored to your organization for achieving excellence among primary care and specialty practices. We use nationally recognized frameworks of Patient Centered Medical Home and Specialty Practice Models. 

Our services include:

  • Provide education on standards and best practices
  • In-depth gap analysis and action plan
  • Documentation review and feedback
  • Advice on overcoming transformation barriers
  • Guidance on application and submission process

HIPAA Privacy and Security

Our team of certified healthcare privacy and security professionals help your organization navigate federal requirements to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information.

Our services include:

  • Security Risk Analysis – In person or New Virtual
  • HIPAA Project Management
  • HIPAA Vulnerability Scan
  • HIPAA Education

HIPAA Privacy and Security

Our team of certified healthcare privacy and security professionals help your organization navigate federal requirements to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information.

Our services include:

  • Security Risk Analysis – In person or New Virtual
  • HIPAA Project Management
  • HIPAA Vulnerability Scan
  • HIPAA Education
Meaningful Use

Telehealth

Telehealth

Our experts help you and your organization address the latest federal, state, and medical licensure programs, and guide you in permanent implementation of a sustainable telehealth program.
Our services include:
  • Personalized education
  • Customized plan
  • Implementation assistance
  • Impact analysis across programs such as QPP

Promoting Interoperability

Our team guides you through complex and evolving programs to achieve compliance in the most efficient and effective way, which translates into lower costs of implementation and protection against costly audits.

Our services include:

  • Initial and ongoing gap analysis

  • eCQM review and alignment

  • Action plan and recommendations

  • Ongoing guidance on requirements, timelines, and changes

Promoting Interoperability

Our team guides you through complex and evolving programs to achieve compliance in the most efficient and effective way, which translates into lower costs of implementation and protection against costly audits.

Our services include:

  • Initial and ongoing gap analysis

  • eCQM review and alignment

  • Action plan and recommendations

  • Ongoing guidance on requirements, timelines, and changes

Meaningful Use

Data Validation

Data Validation

Ensuring data is accurate and thorough is essential to delivering quality care to patients. Our team will help you use data and reports to:
  • Improve HIT usability to minimize provider burden
  • Ensure specific quality measure data is being entered into the EHR
  • Validate reports are identifying the data entered
  • Provide findings that include vendor and workflow recommendations
  • Increase the use of national standards to share patient information securely with key partners

Events

QPP Webinar Sept 17: Claims-based Quality Reporting

QPP Webinar: CLAIMS-BASED QUALITY REPORTING OPTIMIZATION FOR SMALL PRACTICES & INDIVIDUAL ECS* Tuesday SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 @ 12PM ET Participation in CMS’s Quality Payment Program (QPP) often poses a reporting challenge to individual clinicians and small practices...

Kentucky REC Annual Conference Oct 24: Human Factors Design

Hybrid Event with Special Guest Speakers - In Person and Online Oct. 24 2024, Lexington Kentucky, The Campbell HouseHuman-Factors Design: Quality Improvement Strategy with Intention Speaker: Jessica Elliott, Kentucky REC It is not uncommon in many healthcare...

Watch Now! QPP 2024 Promoting Interoperability & Improvement Activities

Kentucky REC expert advisors share important need-to-know information regarding regulatory updates to the Promoting Interoperability & Improvement Activities Performance Categories of CMS’s Quality Payment Program for 2024. At 25% and 15% respectively, PI and IA categories combined are worth 40% of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score in 2024.

Join Us October 24! Kentucky REC Annual Conference

Join Kentucky REC experts advisors and guest speakers for our annual conference on October 24 in Lexington, Kentucky. Content will be provided both virtually and in person at the Campbell House. Register Today!

News

CMS Announces New APM for Acute Care Hospitals – TEAM

TEAM Model APM – Transforming Episode Accountability Model for Acute Care Hospitals

In the recently released Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule (IPPS, August 2024), CMS finalized a new alternative payment model for
acute care hospitals.

The MANDATORY Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) will advance the Innovation Center’s prior work on episode-based alternative payment models, including the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced and Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Models.

QPP Webinar Oct 15: Hidden Quality Measures

QPP Webinar: HIDDEN QUALITY MEASURES: UNDERSTANDING IMPACTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS QUALITY PERFORMANCE*
Tuesday OCTOBER 15, 2024 @ 12PM ET

Did you know that your practice may be scored on more than the six required quality measures you submit to the Quality Payment Program (QPP)? While eligible clinicians and group practices are required to submit six clinical quality measures to receive a score for the quality performance category, there are an additional four administrative claims-based measures that may potentially impact your overall performance in the QPP.

Kentucky REC Annual Conference Oct 24th: SDOH Roundtable

Hybrid Event with Special Guest Speakers - In Person and Online Oct. 24 2024, Lexington Kentucky, The Campbell HouseCollaborative Solutions: SDOH Strategies and Innovative Approaches Expert Roundtable Join us for a dynamic roundtable discussion on how technology,...

Annual Conference Oct 24th: Harold Dennis Jr on Destiny and Choice

Hybrid Event with Special Guest Speakers - In Person and Online Oct. 24 2024, Lexington Kentucky, The Campbell HouseKeynote Speaker: Harold Dennis Jr DESTINY: CHOICE, NOT CHANCE Harold Dennis, survivor of the worst drunk driving accident in US history, takes you on a...

Kentucky REC Annual Conference Oct 24: Human Factors Design

Hybrid Event with Special Guest Speakers - In Person and Online Oct. 24 2024, Lexington Kentucky, The Campbell HouseHuman-Factors Design: Quality Improvement Strategy with Intention Speaker: Jessica Elliott, Kentucky REC It is not uncommon in many healthcare...