Alanna Diffendal

Alanna Diffendal is RXNT's former Product Marketing Manager. During her time at RXNT, she contributed content on healthcare technology, practice operations, and industry trends to help healthcare professionals better navigate the evolving healthcare landscape.

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[Update] iOS e-Prescribing Application

RXNT today released an updated version of the already popular EPCS-certified iOS application for e-Prescribing controlled and non-controlled substances. The updated app allows doctors to mimic the same functionalities that RXNT’s desktop eRx software has, on their smart phone. RXNT’s updated iOS ePrescribing application boasts: Improved look and easier to use Improved patient and medication […]

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Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA): Creating Efficiencies in Medical Billing

CMS defines electronic remittance advice (ERA) as an electronic explanation of payment and adjustments made during the adjudication of claims, and include information regarding payments, deductibles, adjustments, denials, missing or incorrect data, refunds, and claims withholding. Prior to ERAs, the medical billing department was responsible for reviewing each and every line item on a standard

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Maine, Get Your E-Prescriber Ready!

Get your e-Prescribing solution ready because beginning in July of 2017 the state of Maine is mandating that all prescriptions for controlled substances are electronically transmitted, in efforts to prevent opiate abuse. Maine’s Governor Paul LePage has signed into law the “Act To Prevent Opiate Abuse by Strengthening the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program“. The

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RXNT & IMO: ePrescribing and ICD-10 Coding Webinar

Join RXNT and IMO on September 14th at 12:00 PM EST as they host a dual-webinar to show the functionality of IMO’s ICD-10 drill down technology within RXNT’s ePrescribing Solution. The CMS set an October 1st, 2016 launch date to add 5,000 more ICD-10 codes AND an end date to the ICD-10 grace period. This means

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Hospice PBM Connectivity at the Point of Prescribing

PBM Connectivity is a growing concern amongst healthcare technology vendors and customers. This concern is extremely relevant for hospice physicians, nurses, and staff dealing with unique connectivity requirements every day. Hospices across the country are stuck in contracts with fragmented healthcare solutions, and as a result of these fragmented healthcare solutions hospices and patient care

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Free E-prescribing Software: What They’re Not Telling You

Electronic prescribing software is intended to improve patient care and safety, and save practice’s time. We often receive calls from physicians using a free e-prescribing solution complaining that the software they’ve selected is actually slowing down essential prescription transmission. While choosing affordable e-prescribing is a smart decision, it’s important to understand the distinction between ‘affordable’

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E-Prescribing of Controlled Substances is Legal in All 50 States

All too often, physicians respond with disbelief when told for the first time that controlled medications (yes, even C-IIs) can be sent electronically. The response is often, “I can’t send controlled medications electronically in (enter your home state here).” Or, “Do you really mean that I can send controlled medications electronically?” And the answer is

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[Update] ICD-10 Grace Period is Coming to an End

On October 2016, the ICD-10 grace period is coming to an end and an additional 5,000 codes will be added. A blog released by RXNT in early January titled  “Providers Are Not Out of the Woods From ICD-10 Transition”  suggested that it may be too early to determine the true financial impact from the industry’s

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Addressing Hospices’ Biggest Challenge

One of the biggest challenges for Hospice staff is transmitting a prescription to the pharmacy for a controlled medication. All 50 states have legalized the certification of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), but only a licensed provider with an active DEA can transmit a scheduled II-V prescription, after being certified by the vendor. In

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