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New Surgery Center Opening in Farmington

The new surgery center is opening this winter at 55 South Road in Farmington. All privileges will remain in effect since the center is only changing their address. All surgeons…

Identifying the Order in Allscripts

In Allscripts TW, the orders for this testing can be easily found by typing in XPRESS. The two orders will show as:BASIC METABOLIC PANEL – XPRESSCOMP META-P – XPRESS These…

New Lab Test Services

Starting October 15, our Infusion Center Laboratory at Wethersfield will offer Basic Metabolic Profile – BMP and Comprehensive Metabolic Profile – CMP testing using the Piccolo Xpress Chemistry Analyzer. This…

“Incident To” Billing: When and How?

“Incident to” services are defined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as: services that are furnished as an integral, although incidental, part of the physician’s personal, professional…

Lab Orders That Have a Source Collection

Beginning Wednesday, September 18th, 2019, source descriptions and some additional information questions will be prompted for while ordering a sub-set of labs that are collected in the office. ThinPrep Paps…

Partnering with the Bone and Joint Institute to Facilitate Pre-operative Care

Starling has been working with the Bone and Joint Institute to formalize a workflow to facilitate the scheduling of our patients with a Starling IM physician for a pre-op before…

Opioid Statement in Notes

Managing Memory Leak Errors on Allscripts

There are still some residual memory leaks in Allscripts Touchworks even after the last upgrade. These memory leaks can cause errors and slowness. One of the ways to mitigate the…

Accessing UpToDate

As a reminder, you must access UpToDate every 90 days or you will be locked out and have to call UTD for support. Maintaining Access: To maintain uninterrupted access to…

Starling Labs Shares Updated Values

State law mandates that if there is a critical lab, it needs to be resulted and signed off by a physician within 60 minutes.  If the physician does not respond…

Communication Based Guidelines

Click here for presentation that was delivered at the IM meeting. It provides guidelines and code components for communication based services.

Important Updates & Guidance

Kara Olson, Director of Clinical Transformation & Informatics, provides four useful documents: ProHealth and Connecticut GI physicians have been updated with their practice name to aid in searching. Click here…

Reputation Management Pilot

Our Reputation Management pilot has been a big success. Since December, there have been 3,426 new online reviews with an average star rating of 4.9 out of 5.0! We started…

Raising Minimum Salary

At the February Starling Board meeting, the Board was informed that a number of the medical employers in the area including Hartford Healthcare were increasing their minimum salary to $15…