News and Interest Archives - BreezyNotes EHR

Blue Cross Blue Shield Outsources Behavioral Health to Magellan: What Providers Need to Know

16.03.2017 Blog, Helping You, News, News and Interest

Recently, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota announced that they will hand over management of their behavioral health plans to Magellan Health. According to Blue Cross, Magellan has a, “unique vision of integrated, quality care - and 40 years of experience offering behavioral and specialty health...

Introducing BreezyBilling: Professional Billing Services for Behavioral Health

05.01.2017 Blog, New Release, News and Interest

Just over a year ago, we created BreezyNotes EHR to make behavioral health documentation easy and billing simple. Now, we're introducing BreezyBilling: Professional billing services to make sure you don't have to worry about behavioral health billing at all. [caption id="attachment_3852" align="alignnone" width="350"] Just focus on seeing your...

What is Congress’s $250M Behavioral Health Proposal All About?

24.03.2016 Blog, News and Interest, People

When behavioral health was left behind in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for meaningful use, our industry felt snubbed. Now with mental health taking hold in the national consciousness, we are happy to hear some members of congress trying to fix that, at least in...

What a $500M Request in Obama’s 2017 Budget Means for Mental Health Services

09.02.2016 Blog, News, News and Interest

Mental Health has made it to the national stage in a real and a meaningful way. President Barack Obama’s 2017 budget includes a request for $500 million in “new mandatory funding” for mental health services. Here’s the full text of the request: Expanding Access to Mental Health...

BreezyNotes EHR Officially Launched

09.11.2015 Blog, Fun, News and Interest, Start-Up

We’re live! On Thursday, November 5, 2105 BreezyNotes EHR became available to the public! We made it official with a Launch Party, Press Release and our Life is a Breeze EHR Giveaway Sweepstakes. Of course we couldn’t have done it without a lot of help from our...

MAMFT Fall Conference: What We Learned from Therapists About EHR Systems

04.11.2015 Blog, News and Interest

Last week, we joined hundreds of therapists the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT) Fall Conference. Armed with candy and our Life is a Breeze sweepstakes, we spent the day chatting with therapists about EHRs and practice management. We covered the gamut with conference...

BreezyNotes Launches in One Month!

05.10.2015 Blog, News and Interest, Start-Up

After more than two years of effort, we are one short month away from making BreezyNotes available to the public. What a journey it's been! We've been finessing BreezyNotes with our Beta Testers over the last 6 months and we can't wait to launch on November 5. Time...

A Therapist’s Guide to Transitioning from ICD-9 to ICD-10

22.09.2015 Blog, News and Interest, Tools

The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is upon us. For therapists and others in behavioral health, that means there isn’t much time to get your questions answered. We found that many therapists still had a lot of questions about the changeover from ICD-9 to ICD-10. So we...

Five Ways Medicare’s Success is a Roadmap for the Next Generation of EHRs

31.07.2015 Blog, News and Interest

Image by Ardfern (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and reported in USA Today earlier this week shows that Medicare deaths, hospitalizations and costs were reduced in the period of time...

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