Women's Dermatologic Society

As members of the Young Physicians Committee, we look forward to the AAD’s Annual Meeting because it offers time to catch up with friends, network with colleagues, and to expand our knowledge base. My name is Kachiu, and I’m entering my third year in practice. I am an academic dermatologist at Brown University, practicing a mixture of medical and cosmetic dermatology. I completed residency at Brown University, and a laser/cosmetic fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital afterwards. Upon graduation, I returned to Brown University to start the cosmetics division, and currently serve as the Director at our interdisciplinary laser and aesthetic center, where I work closely with plastic surgery and oculoplastics. I am dedicated to the WDS, and currently serve as the Chair of the Young Physicians’ Committee. Outside of work, I am a busy mother of 2 young children (ages 4 and 2 years), and struggle to juggle my work/life responsibilities on a daily basis. My name is M...

Similar to last year, I have come up with a way to avoid the MIPS penalty in 2018 without having to use a registry  OR even  have an EHR. It’s not as easy as last year, but still reasonable (if you can call anything having to do with a government program reasonable)… So here it goes: Here is what I have come up with for avoiding the MIPS penalty in 2020- with assumption being that you are on paper, DON’T have DataDerm (or another registry), and are in a group of fewer than 15 clinicians. You need to get 15 MIPS points to avoid the penalty.  (Last year it was 3 points.) Any practice with fewer than 15 practitioners- automatically gets a Small Practice Bonus=  5 points So, you really only need to get 10 more points to avoid the penalty. Only way to get points- given above assumptions- is to submit quality measures via claims. So, you will need  4 quality measures (one time, on one patient)  to get  12 more points  and avoid th...